Doug assisted with the mating.
Big In Big Spots, National Treasure Named Champion Older Dirt Males
With victories in 2024 in two of the most prestigious races run in this country, National Treasure (Quality Road) proved a handy winner of the Eclipse Award for champion older dirt male, easily outpointing GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile upseter Full Serrano (Arg) (Full Mast) and Straight No Chaser (Speightster), who caused a bit of a surprise in the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint. National Treasure is just the second Bob Baffert trainee to take home the statuette in this particular division (Improbable, 2020).
After giving future Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish (Curlin) all he could handle in a thrilling renewal of the Dirt Mile in 2023, National Treasure raced first off the nearly three-month layoff in the GI Pegasus World Cup Jan. 27.