US HALL OF FAME NOMINEES ANNOUNCED 25 Feb 2021 09:08
Six racehorses, three
trainers, and one jockey account for the 10 finalists that will comprise the
National Museum of Racing’s 2021 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the Museum’s
Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are racehorses American
Pharoah , Blind Luck, Game On Dude, Havre de Grace, Kona Gold, and Rags to Riches;
trainers Christophe Clement, Doug O’Neill, and Todd Pletcher; and jockey Corey
Nakatani.
American Pharoah, the
2015 Triple Crown winner, and Todd Pletcher, a seven-time Eclipse Award winner,
became finalists in their first year of eligibility.
Ballots will be
mailed to the Hall of Fame voting panel the first week in March and the results
of voting on the contemporary candidates will be announced May 5. That
announcement will also include this year’s selections by the Museum’s
Steeplechase Review Committee, which meets once every four years.
The Hall of Fame
induction ceremony—which will honor both the 2020 and 2021 inductees—is
tentatively scheduled for Aug. 6 at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion in Saratoga
Springs, N.Y., at 10:30 a.m. ET.
