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Caravel
The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association s 42nd Annual Iroquois Awards was held virtually on May 21 to celebrate the champions of 2020.
Leading the way was Caravel, who was named 2020 Horse of the Year.
The daughter of Mizzen Mast won four of five starts last year, going from last to first to win on debut at Penn National, then taking an allowance race at the same track with a front-running trip. Caravel then shipped to Presque Isle Downs to win the Lady Erie Stakes in her black type debut.
She took her only trip out of the state to race when she shipped to Pimlico Race Course for the Hilltop Stakes, where she finished third. Her season wrapped up back at Presque Isle, where she drew off to win the Malvern Rose Stakes by 4 3/4 lengths.
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Wait For It #4 with Anthony Nunez riding won the $80,000 Storm Cat Stakes at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pennsylvania on September 7, 2020.
Some things are worth the wait, and for the Uptowncharlybrown gelding Wait for It, a year of anticipation and success saw him finish at the top of the list among earners from the lucrative Pennsylvania-bred and -sired program in 2020.
Now a 6-year-old, Wait for It brought in a combined $191,540 in earnings directly tied to his status as a horse sired and born in the Keystone State, between stakes races restricted to Pennsylvania-breds, breeder s awards, stallion awards, and owner bonuses.