The Nationwide Thoroughbred Racing Affiliation introduced Jan. 19 that Stuart S. Janney III shall be honored with the Eclipse Award of Advantage on the 53rd Annual Eclipse Awards Dinner and Ceremony at The Breakers Palm Seashore in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 25. 

The Eclipse Award of Advantage is the Thoroughbred trade’s highest honor, bestowed upon a person who has displayed a lifetime of accomplishment in service to the game. Janney’s a long time of involvement and management inside the sport of Thoroughbred racing has bettered the game for future generations.

“I’m honored to have been chosen for the Eclipse Award of Advantage and sincerely thank those that chosen me,” Janney mentioned. “This sport, and its future, have all the time been my prime precedence, and I’m appreciative of the help of so many who’ve joined us on the journey to enhance Thoroughbred racing and breeding for generations to return.”

As an proprietor and breeder, Janney has campaigned quite a few top-class horses, together with homebred graded stakes winners Coronado’s Quest, winner of the Haskell and Travers Stakes in 1998, Air Help, Celestial Metropolis, Knowledge Hyperlink, Hymn Ebook, Ironicus, Norumbega, and On Go away. Janney, in partnership with the Phipps Steady, was co-owner and co-breeder of 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb in addition to Grade 1 winner Carriage Path.

Born into considered one of Maryland’s most illustrious racing households, Janney was raised with a deep appreciation of the game via his dad and mom and grandparents. His dad and mom, Stuart and Barbara Janney, bred and owned the Eclipse Award-winning champion and Corridor of Famer Ruffian. Within the Nineties, the youthful Janney started proudly owning and breeding Thoroughbred on his personal and has continued to take action for greater than three a long time.

Janney’s attain and affect prolong nicely past the winner’s circle into lots of Thoroughbred racing’s most essential organizations. Janney has been a member of the Thoroughbred Homeowners and Breeders Affiliation since 1992, serving as chairman from 1997 to 2001 and having served a number of phrases on the board of trustees. He additionally served as a board member of the Maryland Horse Breeders Affiliation from 1992 to 1997 and president of the Maryland Million Ltd. from 1994 to 1997. He was appointed by then Gov. Parris Glendening (Md.) in 1999 to chair the Maryland Fee to Examine Methods to Enhance the Monetary Viability of the Racing Business. Moreover, Janney served on the board of Keeneland from 1998 to 2015. He at the moment serves on the board of The New York Racing Affiliation, Grayson-Jockey Membership Analysis Basis, Equibase Co., and BloodHorse LLC.

“Stuart Janney’s profession has been that of dedication and repair to each the horse and the whole lot of the Thoroughbred racing trade,” NTRA President and CEO Tom Rooney mentioned. “The Eclipse Award of Advantage is in appreciation for all his efforts. Stuart’s management, dedication, and keenness for this trade is unquestionable and I thank him for all his work.”

“I provide my sincerest congratulations to Stuart Janney on being honored with the Eclipse Award of Advantage,” mentioned coach Shug McGaughey, who has labored with Janney for many years. “I’ve skilled horses for Stuart since 1988, and he has been a superb consumer for me, all the time placing the welfare of his horses and the individuals who work with them first. As The Jockey Membership chairman for the previous decade, Stuart has my admiration for taking up the robust and infrequently unpopular points that we, as a sport, should face. I do know it hasn’t all the time been straightforward for him, however repeatedly I’ve seen him guided solely by his ideas: do the fitting factor for the horse.”

“Lastly, I’m proud to name Stuart my buddy, and I want he and his household my thanks for entrusting his horses with me for thus a few years,” mentioned McGaughey.

As chairman of The Jockey Membership since 2015, Janney has performed a pivotal position in initiatives such because the creation of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and the passage of the Horseracing Integrity and Security Act (HISA). Beneath his management, 5 Stones intelligence was engaged to analyze horse racing, leading to federal prosecutions and important penalties. Janney beforehand chaired The Jockey Membership’s Thoroughbred Security Committee, making quite a few suggestions for trade enhancements.

Earlier than his racing involvement, Janney had a distinguished profession within the federal authorities, practiced legislation, and served as a managing director at Alex Brown & Sons. He’s chairman emeritus of Bessemer Belief Co. and is concerned in numerous organizations, together with serving on the board of King Ranch Inc.

Janney, a graduate of the College of North Carolina and the College of Maryland College of Legislation, is married with two youngsters and resides in Butler, Md.