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Trainer Keri Brion is this week's guest on the Friday Show, where she advocates for steeplechase racing and for Eclipse Awards voters not to skip over that category and abstain in year-end voting for racing's annual championships.

Brion, who opened a public stable in 2021 that includes horses racing over jumps and on the flat, is a former assistant to Hall of Fame conditioner Jonathan Sheppard, who retired from training in 2021. She campaigned steeplechase Eclipse Award winner The Mean Queen in her first full year of training and in 2022 became just the second trainer to exceed $1 million in steeplechase earnings in a single season in North America.

Brion's appearance is a followup to the Jan. 6 Friday Show in which voting for 2022 Eclipse Awards was discussed and both bloodstock editor Joe Nevills and guest Andrew Champagne said they abstained from voting in the steeplechase category. Their comments and an earlier Making Claims column by Nevills elicited a letter from steeplechase trainer Kate Dalton and a subsequent wave of comments on social media.

Brion offers a primer to Nevills and publisher Ray Paulick on the sport itself and efforts to grow its popularity, some of steeplechasing's most important races, differences in race courses, the type of horses she looks for to convert to jumps, and the similarities to training horses for the two disciplines. It's a lively and interesting discussion that Brion hopes will lead to a better understanding of the game and fewer abstentions in future Eclipse Awards voting.

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While there will be no suspense when undefeated Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Flightline is crowned 2022 Horse of the Year, some of the divisional awards to be presented at the 52nd annual Eclipse Awards Jan. 26 will be more contentious.

The Eclipse Awards will be held for the first time at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., with cocktails and a red carpet event starting at 6 p.m. ET and dinner and awards show following from 7-10 p.m. FanDuel TV will televise the awards and will also broadcast the announcement of the divisional finalists on Jan. 7  at 11:30 a.m. ET.

With voting closed earlier this week, Andrew Champagne, handicapper for the Saratogian newspaper's Pink Sheet each summer, joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills to discuss the pros and cons of some of the contenders for divisional awards.

Among the more hotly debated races is the Eclipse Award for 3-year-old males, where Taiba stands out as a three-time Grade 1 winner but Epicenter seems to hold sway for his consistency throughout the year, finishing second in the first two legs of the Triple Crown and winning the G1 Travers at Saratoga.

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When she wasn't busy writing news stories or adding content to our website, taking care of her horses every morning, or giving riding lessons on weekends, Paulick Report news editor Chelsea Hackbarth found the time over the last couple of years to research and write a book that tells the stories of the founding veterinarians and shareholders at the world-renowned Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky.

The book, titled “In Pursuit of Excellence: The Stories of Rood & Riddle Veterinarians,” details the lives and professional experiences of some of the top equine practitioners in the world. It is available through Rood & Riddle's online pharmacy here.

Hackbarth, a master story-teller with hands-on experience working at the track and with her own horses, is this week's Friday Show guest, joining Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills to talk about the process of researching and writing “In Pursuit Of Excellence,” and what it was like to interview some of the equine world's most respected and knowledgeable veterinarians. She recounts a day spent watching Dr. Larry Bramlage conducting surgeries and then quickly adding meticulously detailed notes into a tape recorder. “'It blew my mind,” Hackbarth said.

This week's Friday Show, which coincides with closing weekend at our year-long sponsor Woodbine, will be our final episode of 2022. We greatly appreciate Woodbine's support throughout the year, the special guests who have joined us, and all of the viewers who have tuned in.

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Trainer Tom Amoss joins Ray Paulick and Joe Nevills on this week's Friday Show to talk about his unbeaten 2-year-old filly Hoosier Philly, who ran her record to a perfect 3-for-3 with a five-length victory at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26 in the Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes.

A daughter of red-hot sire Into Mischief out of a mare by Tapit who races for Bill Stone and Rod Ratcliff's Gold Standard Racing Stable, Hoosier Philly was a $510,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase that Amoss said outworked all of his other 2-year-olds to the point he had to start pairing her up with older horses to make sure she was getting enough out of her training.

“We knew we had something different than we've ever had before, and I've been doing this since 1987,” Amoss said. “I said before she ever ran, I've never had one get ready like she's getting ready, and when she started displaying in the afternoons it became clear to me that we have a really special horse – the most special horse I've ever had.”

In the aftermath of the Golden Rod, Amoss said he has “flirted” with the idea of putting Hoosier Philly on the road to the Kentucky Derby instead of the Kentucky Oaks, a race he won in 2019 with Serengeti Empress. On the Friday Show, he said, “I'm not going to do anything with her that she doesn't suggest she's ready for.”

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