The 2000 Sim Eclipse for   Horse Of The Year
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SCHOOL KRIS(GB)

FOUR-YEAR-OLD-COLT- KRIS(GB) x LYPHARD x NIJINSKY II
OWNER / TRAINER - THEATRICAL

Record: 2000 28/ 11-7-2
Lifetime: 52/ 21-13-6

Earnings: $4,883,630

2000 Graded Stakes:

    1st: Because I said So Stakes (GI), Eddie O Cap (GI), The Prometheus Gift (GI), Windy City Turf Classic (GI), Arcade Handicap (GII), Utah BB Mile (GII), All Comers Cap (GIII)
    2nd: Breeders Bowl Mile (GI), Cane Toad Staked (GII), Florida BB Sprint Championship (GII), Simon and Simon Cap (GII), Hyperactive Handicap (GIII)
    3rd: Kakarazuka Tinen Cup (GII)
By- Sharon Shimko

The third Saturday in September was no ordinary Sim raceday. Stemming from an unique idea to capture and mirror real-world Olympics excitement, several months of preparation came finally to its grand climax: Week 788 marked 15 specially sponsored races to be hosted at Vermont. Fifteen million-dollar races, fifteen owner restricted races to be exact. Led and organized by Ladyssecret of Pastures Of Green, the event was collectively called the Sim Equinics -- a dozen resident stables were the symbolic “countries” as each sent 15 of their very best horses to participate. It was a day to mark the coming-together of the player-run sites.................

    A trip back to the United States was accompanied by much pomp and circumstance as School Kris brought honor and glory to his home state of California by winning Equinic gold in the GI Prometheus Gift.
    ---- Sir Arthur Cornwallis, Champion Turf Horse Tribute
Some of the sites like Longchamp’s Turfstar-Paris Races, New York’s Through The Binoculars and, of course, Pastures are still around today and some aren’t like the now-defunct California Gold. Trainer Theatrical, a resident of Cal Gold, had the honor of sending out his top star School Kris to represent the California site. For the one mile turf event, the colt won his race with ease. It was his third Grade 1 victory in his past five starts at that point -- in 2000, he would capture a total of four Grade 1 turf events, pocketing three other grades and hitting the board in six others. In a whopping 21 graded stakes race starts, School Kris finished in the money in 13 of those events, a tremendous percentage as consistent top company horses are so few and far between...............
    ”He is a warrior with an unparalleled heart."
    ---- Sir Arthur Cornwallis, Champion Turf Horse Tribute
From those 21 graded stakes and 13 victories or in-the-money performances, we arrive at another key statistic in School Kris’ Horse Of the Year campaign. The key to a champion lies in consistency at the highest level and, also, all-around in good company. School Kris made just seven seasonal starts in listed stakes events. At high-purse tracks like California, Kentucky, Louisiana and Longchamp, theatrical’s champion turf horse finished in the money in all of those seven starts, winning four of them in a sheer testament to his class. This colt belonged in the graded stakes ranks -- the theater of his prep races were against his very own rivals -- rivals who did beat him on his off days, but sure tasted his dust when he was on his mark. In a long campaign from January to December, School Kris raced and won with the very best in his division, winning from 6 1/2 furlongs to a mile-and-a-quarter. It was a year-long campaign of consistency through the entire season.................
    ”You can't say anything better than he is a champion."
    ---- Sir Arthur Cornwallis, Champion Turf Horse Tribute
It is fitting that the newly-crowned 2000 Sim Horse Of the Year won his Equinics race for Theatrical and the California Gold team. So many lucky trainers got to see their horses run in million-dollar races, but the Equinics was so much more than the actual raceday itself. So many people were involved in its preparation. For each horse that ran, there was a select alternate-in-waiting, doubling the potential number of trainers involved. For each horse to even be considered, there were Message Board and e-mail communications needed, correspondance from each resident track’s organizers to possible representative trainers. For the horses to actually see the starting gate, there were countless hours of website work -- lists of horses needed to be posted and updated, and the Equinics site itself was an entourage of rules, starting fields, and medals. The Equinics itself was in the pre-Owner Restricted “package” days -- Mike Wallace had to tediously card the races by hand -- there was no convenient program or passwords to assign. Such vague description, however, does not do justice to all the organization and promotion that went into the Sim's greatest day of player participation -- and it all began with a starting point, an idea. One, that through tons of persistency, patience, and hard work, blossomed into awesome reality.

A remarkable idea that so many Sim players saw through to the end. A much-needed idea like the 2000 Sim Eclipse Awards, which brings final closure to this past racing season. An ambitious idea like the dream that all player-run sites start out with and blossom from -- as long as players both new, old, and yet-to-join imagine, discover, and pursue these new ideas, seeing them (through hard work) to the end, then the potential for great events like the Sim Equinics will always be just on the horizon. And like these wonderful imaginary racehorses who continue to test our skill, drive and determination all in this simulated horse racing game’s lovely allure -- in between numbers and names, they are all projects-in-the-making like characters in their very own heart-filled stories: each Saturday brings a new chapter to their rich-or-poor, grand-or-humble racing careers. And like theatrical’s own star hero, School Kris, son of Kris(GB), four-time Grade 1 conqueror and seven-time graded stakes victor in 2000, campaigner of over $4-million, champion turf horse, and because champions shall be crowned, and the champion of all champions shall be crowned............

School Kris: 2000 Sim Horse Of The Year
    "He is a warrior with an unparalleled heart. You can't say anything better than he is a champion." I couldn't agree more.
    ---- Sir Arthur Cornwallis, Champion Turf Horse Tribute

School Kris' 2000 Horse Of The Year Campaign

SCHOOL KRIS(GB) ID# 9471   ( - - - - )
theatrical 4 Year Old Colt (KRIS(GB) x LYPHARD x NIJINSKY II)

Divisional Ranking: 1                    Races Wins Places Shows Earnings
Low Tag/Year: N/A     Total 52 21 13 6 $4,883,630
Non M/C/O/S Wins: 20     Dirt 7 2 1 1 $296,500
        Turf 45 19 12 5 $4,587,130
        Routes 34 14 6 6 $3,876,890
        Sprints 18 7 7 0 $1,006,740

Past Performances:
Race ID Trk RST S D Race Time SP# # PP C1 C2 C3 FIN Jockey Odds
893.0101 CA 3yo+ T 12 Chris Antley Memorial Series -G2 2:29 1/5 90 12 7 3 1 3 3 4 15-1/2 7 35-1/2 M Staples 1.80
879.5814 GE 3yo+ T 8 The CHATEAUBAY Handicap -Stk 1:35 1/5 107 6 1 2 1-1/2 2 1-1/2 1 4-1/2 1 3-1/2 V Jackson .50
865.0111 CA 3yo+ T 6.5 The AFFIRMANT Stakes -Stk 1:16 1/5 104 8 8 5 1-3/4 4 2-3/4 2 3/4 1 3/4 M Wallace .90
851.3415 E2 3yo+ T 6 Because I Said So Stakes -G1 1:09 1/5 113 12 11 5 3/4 5 1 2 ns 1 1-3/4 C Jericho 4.10
837.031 KY 3yo+ T 8 Breeders Bowl Mile -G1 1:34 117 12 2 3 2-1/4 3 3-1/2 2 3-1/4 2 1-3/4 B Alt 4.50
823.5314 A1 3yo+ T 12 Coalminer Cup -G1 2:29 3/5 106 12 6 1 ns 1 3/4 3 1-3/4 5 12-3/4 C Crockett 1.80
809.2715 UT 3yo+ T 8 Utah BB Mile -G2 1:35 1/5 107 7 3 4 2-3/4 3 3-1/2 1 ns 1 5 E Sanders .70
802.3615 E4 3yo+ T 9 The Boring Belgium Cup -G1 1:48 2/5 88 12 12 4 2-1/4 4 3-1/2 4 8 7 19-1/2 F Rizzo 1.00
788.3707 VT 3yo+ T 8 --Special Restrictions -G1 1:34 120 12 11 4 3/4 3 3/4 1 1-3/4 1 4-3/4 N Lawton 1.60
774.5515 A3 3yo+ T 6 Cane Toad Stakes -G2 1:08 4/5 117 12 8 7 2-1/2 6 4 3 3 2 hd F Miller 2.40
760.0715 IL 3yo+ T 10 Windy City Turf Classic -G1 2:00 4/5 118 12 5 1 1/2 1 1-1/4 1 3 1 4 D McCants 4.00
753.4015 NC 3yo+ D 7.5 Booker T. Handicap -G2 1:28 3/5 101 12 4 8 5-1/4 8 8-1/4 8 7-3/4 9 8-3/4 B Mills 6.40
739.0114 CA 3yo+ T 9 Eddie O Cap -G1 1:49 105 10 8 5 3-3/4 5 5-1/4 2 2 1 2-3/4 M Wallace 3.20
725.0115 CA 3yo+ D 10 Movieland Shiny Cup -G1 2:00 3/5 112 12 12 4 1-1/2 4 1-3/4 2 1-1/4 4 7-3/4 R Grant 6.80
711.0914 NJ 3yo+ T 11 United Countries Handicap -G1 2:15 107 8 6 3 1-1/4 3 1-1/2 4 5-3/4 4 13 E Sieber 2.20
704.5015 JP 3yo+ T 10 Kakarazuka Tinen Cup -G2 2:00 3/5 113 10 9 4 2-1/2 4 4 3 3-1/2 3 5-1/4 D Davis 2.50
690.2315 NB 3yo+ T 6.5 The Rightfully Mine Stakes -G2 1:15 2/5 109 10 7 7 2-1/2 7 4 5 3 4 3 H Desitter 3.00
676.0413 NY 3yo+ T 7 Hyperactive Handicap -G3 1:21 3/5 110 11 11 6 4 6 6-1/4 3 6 2 3-1/2 N Lawton 2.90
662.5014 JP 4yo+ T 7 Rising Sun Spring Cup -G1 1:21 4/5 93 12 5 12 9-1/4 12 15 11 16 9 12-3/4 N Haller 4.90
648.5410 A2 3yo+ T 8 All Comers Stakes -G2 1:35 2/5 106 10 5 3 3/4 2 1/2 1 2-1/2 1 4-1/4 G Stepnoski .60
634.0109 CA 4yo+ T 6.5 Simon and Simon Cap -G3 1:15 2/5 109 9 3 7 4-1/4 7 6-3/4 3 6-1/4 2 3 L Jones 1.50
620.2813 OT 4yo+ T 6.5 The ADMIRALS JOY Handicap -Stk 1:16 1/5 103 9 1 5 1-1/4 4 1-1/4 1 1-1/4 1 3-1/2 B Renfroe .30
606.0301 KY 4yo+ T 7 The One Attack Special -Stk 1:21 4/5 111 11 7 8 2 8 3 2 1 2 3 S Lynch 2.30
599.0107 CA 4yo+ T 8 Arcade Handicap -G2 1:35 3/5 104 8 3 5 3 5 5 2 2 1 4 M Wallace .80
579.0515 LA 4yo+ T 8 The POLE POSITION Handicap -Stk 1:34 115 12 4 7 2 6 3 1 1 2 2 H Fernandez 1.00
565.0209 FL 3yo+ D 7 Florida BB Sprint Championship -G2 1:21 1/5 115 12 11 6 5 6 7 4 6 2 3 M Jaeger 7.60
551.0307 KY 4yo+ T 9 Kate 'The Hottyies' Birthday Special -Stk 1:49 1/5 98 11 1 8 3 7 5 3 6 3 5 B Anderson .80
537.3512 E3 3yo+ T 7 The STAFF WRITER Stakes -Stk 1:22 1/5 108 12 6 4 2 4 3 1 hd 1 4 P Nine 1.80
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