# American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse

The American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971.
The award originated in 1936 when the Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion. In the same year, the Baltimore-based Turf and Sports Digest magazine instituted a similar award. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by these organizations. Whenever there were different champions named, the horses are listed side by side with the one chosen as champion by the Daily Racing Form noted with the letters (DRF), the one chosen by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations by the letters (TRA) and the one chosen by Turf and Sports Digest by the letters (TSD).
The Daily Racing Form, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and the National Turf Writers Association all joined forces in 1971 to create the Eclipse Award.
Champions from 1886 through 1935 were selected retrospectively by a panel of experts as published by The Blood-Horse magazine.

## Honorees
### Eclipse Awards

| Year | Horse | Trainer | Owner |
| 2024 | Citizen Bull | Bob Baffert | SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Robert E. Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Dianne Bashor, Determined Stables, Tom J. Ryan, Waves Edge Capital and Catherine Donovan |
| 2023 | Fierceness | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stables |
| 2022 | Forte | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stable & St. Elias Stable |
| 2021 | Corniche | Bob Baffert | Speedway Stables |
| 2020 | Essential Quality | Brad H. Cox | Godolphin |
| 2019 | Storm the Court | Peter Eurton | Exline-Border Racing LLC |
| 2018 | Game Winner | Bob Baffert | Mary & Gary West |
| 2017 | Good Magic | Chad Brown | e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables |
| 2016 | Classic Empire | Mark Casse | John C. Oxley |
| 2015 | Nyquist | Doug O'Neill | Reddam Racing |
| 2014 | American Pharoah | Bob Baffert | Ahmed Zayat |
| 2013 | Shared Belief | Jerry Hollendorfer | Jungle Racing, Kmn Racing et al. |
| 2012 | Shanghai Bobby | Todd Pletcher | Starlight Racing |
| 2011 | Hansen | Mike Maker | K. Hansen & Sky Chai Racing |
| 2010 | Uncle Mo | Todd Pletcher | Mike Repole |
| 2009 | Lookin at Lucky | Bob Baffert | Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, Paul Weitman |
| 2008 | Midshipman | Bob Baffert | Godolphin Racing |
| 2007 | War Pass | Nicholas P. Zito | Robert V. LaPenta |
| 2006 | Street Sense | Carl Nafzger | James B. Tafel |
| 2005 | Stevie Wonderboy | Douglas F. O'Neill | Merv Griffin |
| 2004 | Declan's Moon | Ronald W. Ellis | Jay Em Ess Stables |
| 2003 | Action This Day | Richard E. Mandella | B. Wayne Hughes |
| 2002 | Vindication | Bob Baffert | Padua Stables |
| 2001 | Johannesburg | Aidan O'Brien | Michael Tabor & Sue Magnier |
| 2000 | Macho Uno | Joe Orseno | Stronach Stables |
| 1999 | Anees | Alex L. Hassinger Jr. | The Thoroughbred Corp. |
| 1998 | Answer Lively | Bobby C. Barnett | John A. Franks |
| 1997 | Favorite Trick | Patrick B. Byrne | Joseph LaCombe |
| 1996 | Boston Harbor | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm |
| 1995 | Maria's Mon | Richard E. Schosberg | Mrs. Morton Rosenthal |
| 1994 | Timber Country | D. Wayne Lukas | Gainesway Stable, et al. |
| 1993 | Dehere | Reynaldo Nobles | Due Process Stable |
| 1992 | Gilded Time | Darrell Vienna | David Milch, Jack & Mark Silverman |
| 1991 | Arazi | François Boutin | Allen E. Paulson & Sheikh Mohammed |
| 1990 | Fly So Free | Flint S. Schulhofer | Tommy & Elizabeth Valando |
| 1989 | Rhythm | Claude R. McGaughey III | Ogden Mills Phipps |
| 1988 | Easy Goer | Claude R. McGaughey III | Ogden Phipps |
| 1987 | Forty Niner | Woody Stephens | Claiborne Farm |
| 1986 | Capote | D. Wayne Lukas | Beal, French Jr. & Klein |
| 1985 | Tasso | Neil D. Drysdale | Gerald Robins |
| 1984 | Chief's Crown | Roger Laurin | Star Crown Stable |
| 1983 | Devil's Bag | Woody Stephens | Hickory Tree Stable |
| 1982 | Roving Boy | Joseph Manzi | Robert E. Hibbert |
| 1981 | Deputy Minister | Bill Marko | Centurion Stables & Kinghaven Farms |
| 1980 | Lord Avie | Daniel Perlsweig | SKS Stable |
| 1979 | Rockhill Native | Herbert K. Stevens | Harry A. Oak |
| 1978 | Spectacular Bid | Bud Delp | Hawksworth Farm |
| 1977 | Affirmed | Laz Barrera | Harbor View Farm |
| 1976 | Seattle Slew | William H. Turner Jr. | Karen & Mickey Taylor |
| 1975 | Honest Pleasure | LeRoy Jolley | Bertram R. Firestone |
| 1974 | Foolish Pleasure | LeRoy Jolley | John L. Greer |
| 1973 | Protagonist | John P. Campo | Maxwell H. Gluck |
| 1972 | Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | Christopher Chenery |
| 1971 | Riva Ridge | Lucien Laurin | Christopher Chenery |

### Daily Racing Form, Turf & Sport Digest and Thoroughbred Racing Association Awards

| Year | Horse | Trainer | Owner |
| 1970 | Hoist The Flag | Sidney Watters Jr. | Jane Forbes Clark |
| 1969 | Silent Screen | J. Bowes Bond | Elberon Farm |
| 1968 | Top Knight | Raymond Metcalf | Steven B. Wilson |
| 1967 | Vitriolic | Edward A. Neloy | Ogden Phipps |
| 1966 | Successor | Edward A. Neloy | Wheatley Stable |
| 1965 | Buckpasser | William C. Winfrey | Ogden Phipps |
| 1964 | Bold Lad | William C. Winfrey | Wheatley Stable |
| 1963 | Hurry to Market (TRA)(DRF) | David Erb | Roger W. Wilson & Mrs. T. P. Hull Jr. |
| 1963 | Raise a Native (TSD) | Burley Parke | Louis Wolfson |
| 1962 | Never Bend | Woody Stephens | Cain Hoy Stable |
| 1961 | Crimson Satan | Gordon R. Potter | Peter W. Salmen Sr. |
| 1960 | Hail to Reason | Hirsch Jacobs | Hirsch Jacobs & Harbor View Farm |
| 1959 | Warfare | Hack Ross | Clifton H. Jones |
| 1958 | First Landing | Casey Hayes | Christopher Chenery |
| 1957 | Nadir (DRF) | Moody Jolley | Claiborne Farm |
| 1957 | Jewel's Reward (TRA) (TSD) | Ivan H. Parke | Maine Chance Farm |
| 1956 | Barbizon | Horace A. Jones | Lucille P. Markey |
| 1955 | Needles | Hugh L. Fontaine | Jack Dudley & Bonnie Heath |
| 1954 | Nashua | James E. Fitzsimmons | Belair Stud |
| 1953 | Porterhouse (TRA) (DRF) | Charles E. Whittingham | Liz Whitney Tippett |
| 1953 | Hasty Road (TSD) | Harry Trotsek | Hasty House Farm |
| 1952 | Native Dancer | William C. Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II |
| 1951 | Tom Fool | John M. Gaver Sr. | Greentree Stable |
| 1950 | Battlefield | Bert Mulholland | George D. Widener Jr. |

### Daily Racing Form and Turf & Sport Digest Awards

| Year | Horse | Trainer | Owner |
| 1949 | Hill Prince (DRF) | Casey Hayes | Christopher Chenery |
| 1949 | Oil Capitol (TSD) | Harry Trotsek | Thomas Gray & Cora M. Trotsek |
| 1948 | Blue Peter | Andy Schuttinger | Joseph M. Roebling |
| 1947 | Citation | Ben & Horace Jones | Calumet Farm |
| 1946 | Double Jay | Walter L. McCue | James V. Tigani & James Boines |
| 1945 | Star Pilot | Tom Smith | Maine Chance Farm |
| 1944 | Pavot | Oscar White | Walter M. Jeffords Sr. |
| 1943 | Platter (DRF) | Bert Mulholland | George D. Widener Jr. |
| 1943 | Occupy (TSD) | Burley Parke | John Marsch |
| 1942 | Count Fleet | Don Cameron | Fannie Hertz |
| 1941 | Alsab | Sarge Swenke | Albert Sabath |
| 1940 | Whirlaway (TSD) | Ben A. Jones | Calumet Farm |
| 1940 | Our Boots (DRF) | Steve Judge | Royce G. Martin |
| 1939 | Bimelech | William A. Hurley | Edward R. Bradley |
| 1938 | El Chico | Matthew P. Brady | William Ziegler Jr. |
| 1937 | Menow | Duval A. Headley | Hal Price Headley |
| 1936 | Pompoon | Johnny Loftus | Jerome H. Louchheim |

### The Blood-Horse retrospective champions

| Year | Horse | Trainer | Owner |
| 1935 | Tintagel | George M. Odom | Marshall Field III |
| 1934 | Balladier | Herbert J. Thompson | Edward R. Bradley |
| 1933 | Cavalcade | Robert Augustus Smith | Isabel Dodge Sloane |
| 1932 | Ladysman | Bud Stotler | William R. Coe |
| 1931 | Burning Blaze | John B. Partridge | Pat & Richard Nash |
| 1930 | Jamestown | A. Jack Joyner | George D. Widener Jr. |
| 1930 | Equipoise | Fred Hopkins | Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney |
| 1929 | Whichone | James G. Rowe Jr. | Harry Payne Whitney |
| 1928 | High Strung | George M. Odom | Marshall Field III |
| 1927 | Reigh Count | Henry E. McDaniel | Fannie Hertz |
| 1927 | Dice | James E. Fitzsimmons | Wheatley Stable |
| 1926 | Scapa Flow | Scott P. Harlan | Walter M. Jeffords Sr. |
| 1925 | Pompey | William H. Karrick | William R. Coe |
| 1924 | Master Charlie | Andrew Blakely | William Daniel |
| 1923 | St. James | A. Jack Joyner | George D. Widener Jr. |
| 1923 | Wise Counsellor | John S. Ward | Frederick A. Burton & John S. Ward |
| 1922 | Zev | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable |
| 1921 | Morvich | Fred Burlew | Benjamin Block |
| 1920 | Tryster | James G. Rowe Sr. | Harry Payne Whitney |
| 1919 | Man o' War | Louis Feustel | Samuel D. Riddle |
| 1918 | Billy Kelly | H. Guy Bedwell | J. K. L. Ross |
| 1918 | Eternal | Kimball Patterson | James W. McClelland |
| 1917 | Sun Briar | Henry E. McDaniel | Willis Sharpe Kilmer |
| 1916 | Campfire | Thomas J. Healey | Richard T. Wilson Jr. |
| 1915 | Dominant | James G. Rowe Sr. | Lewis S. Thompson |
| 1914 | Pebbles | Richard C. Benson | James Butler |
| 1913 | Old Rosebud | Frank D. Weir | Frank D. Weir & Hamilton Applegate |
| 1912 | Helios | John Oliver Keene | Johnson N. Camden Jr. |
| 1911 | Worth | Frank M. Taylor | Harry C. Hallenbeck |
| 1910 | Novelty | Sam Hildreth | Sam Hildreth |
| 1909 | Sweep | James G. Rowe Sr. | James R. Keene |
| 1909 | Waldo | Raleigh Colston Jr. | Charles L. Harrison |
| 1908 | Sir Martin | John E. Madden | John E. Madden |
| 1907 | Colin | James G. Rowe Sr. | James R. Keene |
| 1906 | Salvidere | John E. Madden | Thomas Hitchcock |
| 1905 | Burgomaster | John W. Rogers | Harry Payne Whitney |
| 1904 | Sysonby | James G. Rowe Sr. | James R. Keene |
| 1903 | Highball | John W. May | Walter M. Scheftel & John W. May |
| 1902 | Irish Lad | John E. Madden | H. P. Whitney & H. B. Duryea |
| 1901 | Nasturtium | John W. Rogers | William Collins Whitney |
| 1900 | Commando | James G. Rowe Sr. | James R. Keene |
| 1899 | Mesmerist | Julius Bauer | Bromley and Co. |
| 1899 | Chacornac | James G. Rowe Sr. | James R. Keene |
| 1898 | Jean Bereaud | Sam Hildreth | Sydney Paget |
| 1897 | Hamburg | John E. Madden | John E. Madden |
| 1896 | Ogden | John Campbell | Marcus Daly |
| 1895 | Requital | James G. Rowe Sr. | David Gideon |
| 1895 | Ben Brush | Edward D. Brown | H. Eugene Leigh & Edward D. Brown |
| 1894 | none selected | | |
| 1893 | Domino | William Lakeland | James R. Keene |
| 1892 | Morello | Frank Van Ness | William M. Singerly |
| 1891 | His Highness | John J. Hyland | David Gideon |
| 1890 | Potomac | James G. Rowe Sr. | August Belmont |
| 1889 | El Rio Rey | Alfred H. Estell | Theodore Winters |
| 1888 | Proctor Knott | Sam W. Bryant | S. W. Bryant & George Scoogan |
| 1887 | Emperor of Norfolk | John W. McClelland | E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin |
| 1887 | Raceland | James G. Rowe Sr. | August Belmont |
| 1886 | Tremont | Frank McCabe | Dwyer Brothers Stable |