b'2019 NATIONAL AWARDS Owner of the Year FinalistHronis Racing Coming off 2018 as theAt the 2019 Del Mar summer meeting, Hronis Racing Eclipse Award outstandingtopped owners with a record $1,441,077 in purses to take its owner and Accelerates Eclipsefifth owner title. The stable won nine races, including a record Award as champion older dirtseven stakes.male, Hronis Racing could beHigher Power led all other Hronis runners last year with forgiven of some slide in 2019.earnings of $1,284,370, which included a victory in the $1 Instead, the stable, headed byMillion TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) at Del Mar. Also at brothers Kosta and Pete Hronis,Del Mar, Catalina Cruiser won the Pat OBrien Stakes (G2) continued as strong as ever, withand San Diego Handicap (G2), and Cistron won the Bing l-r: Pete and Laurie Hronis with Stephanie andtrainer John Sadler sending outCrosby Stakes (G1). Kosta Hronis a variety of horses to win majorAt Santa Anita, Hronis Racings Gift Box scored in the stakes. Santa Anita Handicap Presented by San Manuel Indian If you look at 2019, I think it showed the diversity of theBingo and Casino (G1). He finished the season with a second barn, said Kosta Hronis. It wasnt like the year before, whereconsecutive victory in the San Antonio Stakes (G2), also at Accelerate kind of dominated the barn. Santa Anita.Accelerate put in one last start in 2019 before heading toIts the continuation of an amazing run that began in 2010, stud, finishing third in the Pegasus World Cup Invitationalwhen Sadler claimed the first horse for the Hronis stable. The Stakes (G1) to bring his total earnings to $6,692,480. FromHronis-Sadler partnership has been responsible for Eclipse there, other Hronis horses capably carried the stable to 2019Award winners such as Stellar Wind, in addition to the earnings of $5,632,611. Eclipses for the owners and Accelerate.Higher Power was our biggest earner, but we had the mostWhile the Hronis family enjoys its own stable, the Hronises stakes wins at Del Mar with different horses, Hronis said.also have fun collaborating with others in a variety of That kind of made me proud to show that were not just apartnerships. Its one of the reasons Kosta Hronis calls the one-trick pony. Were very diversified. racing industry his second family.Tracy GantzOwner of the Year FinalistsKlaravich Stables and William LawrenceSeth Klarman and Williammade it back to the races and captured a Dec. 22, 2018, Lawrence can certainly relateallowance optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park. After to the farewells of John Elwaythat, he ran the table during an 11-month 2019 campaign and Peyton Manning, thanksthat started with a win in the $7 million Pegasus World Cup to the heroics of 2019 Horse ofTurf Invitational Stakes (G1T) and culminated with a score the Year Bricks and Mortar. in the $4 million Longines Breeders Cup Turf (G1T). Along Both Hall of Famethe way, Bricks and Mortar won all six starts for trainer quarterbacks decided to goChad Brown and was named Horse of the Year by a decisive Seth Klarman William Lawrence out at the very top of theirmargin.professions, announcingWe had a great run the last three or four years, and to go their retirements after Super Bowl victories. Klarman andout on top with the Horse of the Year is as good as it gets, Lawrence parted ways after achieving the pinnacle of successLawrence said. You never come into something like this as owners of a Thoroughbred racehorse, though it wasntexpecting to have the Horse of the Year, and even when it planned. It just worked out that way, defying incredible odds. happens, it still doesnt seem real. Its just amazing. Knowing In 2018 the two friends decided to liquidate theirhow it ended, maybe we should have decided to wind things partnership in an amicable parting of ways. While they haddown a few years ago.enjoyed racing as a team for 13 years, Klarman was eager toBy winning all six 2019 starts, Bricks and Mortar earned expand his Klaravich Stables in a big way, and Lawrence was$6,723,650. Now a stallion in Japan, he closed his career with content to maintain a modest string of horses. 11 wins in 13 starts and earnings of $7,085,650.They planned to sell off their horses by the end of 2019.Its still a little surreal, Lawrence said. For both Seth and What they didnt expect was that a horse sidelined for moreme, hes the horse of a lifetime. I grew up near Saratoga and than a year would end their run by earning Horse of the Yeardreamed about owning a race horse. So to have the best horse honors for them and helping them to become the Eclipsein the country, its incredible and extremely gratifying.Award recipients as the years outstanding owners. Bricks and Mortars win in the Turf was the penultimate Bricks and Mortar was sidelined for 14 months afterstart for Klarman and Lawrence, whose 2019 totals were 17 suffering a hock ailment described as stringhalt, but hewins from 41 starts with earnings of $8,178,845.Bob Ehalt28 TOBA NATIONAL AWARDS DINNER/2020'