We have seen some great racing this season and each of us has our favorites. Sure, there are no dominating 3YO fillies or colts, and in a way that is good for racing. Even the older horses can’t seem to manage to dominate their groups until this Sunday. After the Del Mar Pacific Classic, Acclamation has all rights to carry the mantle of being the best for 2011.
His record speaks for itself. The only horse to win 3 Grade One races this year (three in a row). All three races had different jockeys and he has won on both turf and synthetic. The three wins were wire to wire and the last was a track record for 1 ¼ miles, Synthetic (and he has won at this distance on turf and timed faster). What makes this really special is he is a Cal Bred, not Florida or Kentucky, but bred by his owners and with only one trainer, Don Warren.
With winning the Pacific Classic they are in the Breeders Cup, I doubt he will run in the Classic and will go back to the turf. He has sixty days before the BC Turf and not sure we will see him until then, but if he wins the Breeders Cup Turf at a mile and a half he is horse of the year!
For now though he is the Number One horse in the country.
