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Cody's Wish named horse of the year at Eclipse Awards

Cody's Wish, with Junior Alvarado up, wins the Churchill Downs Stakes during the 149th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Racetrack on Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.

LOS ANGELES — Horse racing's feel-good story of the last two years reached its inevitable climax on Thursday night when Cody's Wish was named horse of the year at the 53rd Eclipse Awards, held in Palm Beach, Fla. The retired 6-year-old also won the award for older dirt male.

The horse was named after Cody Dorman, a teenager with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome who did not have the ability to walk or communicate on his

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