A chestnut Thoroughbred colt was born during a solar eclipse for which he was named. Many thought this event heralded Eclipse's greatness, and it surely seemed so when he went on to win every race he ever entered. The phrase "Eclipse first, and the rest nowhere" characterized how he ran his races.

After racing for just under a year and a half, he was retired and became one of the most influential Thoroughbred stallions ever. The Eclipse Awards are named in his honor.

He, like all Thoroughbreds, has all three founding fathers of the Thoroughbred breed in his ancestry (the Byerley Turk, Godolphin Arabian and the Darley Arabian). The closest though, is the Godolphin Arabian which was his great-grandsire. How cool is that?!

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