Coolmore's Cape Blanco (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was retired with injury before getting to take on the world in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf, but had done enough to be honored Monday night as the champion turf male by Eclipse voters. He went a perfect 3-for-3 in the U.S. in 2011, with wins in the GI Arlington Million S., GI Man O' War S. and GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational S. Cape Blanco got 172 first-place votes, followed by Acclamation (Unusual Heat), 55; St Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), 16; Court Vision (Gulch), 2; Turallure (Wando), 2; Drosselmeyer (Distorted Humor), 1.
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