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Exhibiting brilliance from a mile to 1 ¼ miles, and punctuated by an 8 ¼-length victory in the Nov. 5 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic, Flightline soared to Eclipse Award heights as North America’s 2022 Horse of the Year.

Let’s talk about coronations.

No, not the one scheduled for Westminster Abbey in London late this spring, although we’ll get back to that.

This is about the coronation of a horse, already talked about before he walked off a racing surface for the final time as the latter-day Secretariat, anointed by the gurus who set such numbers as the best in the world in 2022, equal in status to Frankel.

Once again Oaklawn Park’s Southwest Stakes will offer qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, only this year there will be more of them to go around.

The Grade 1, $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational presented by Qatar Racing will celebrate a new winner on Saturday at Gulfstream Park as the two-year reign of Colonel Liam came to an end last week when he was retired.

BloodHorse news editor Byron King presents his inaugural Derby Dozen for 2023, with a look at his leading contenders for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on May 6.

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