Eclipse Award champions Accelerate and Roy H are the newest residents of the Kentucky Horse Park's Hall of Champions, the Lexington, Ky., destination announced this week. The two fill a void in the barn, which was briefly without Thoroughbred representatives following the passing of Horse of the Year Point Given this past September, and champion Funny Cide, in July. Accelerate and Roy H will reside in the barn alongside Standardbreds Marion Marauder, Mr. Muscleman, Western Dreamer, and Won The West. Accelerate, a 10-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky, comes to the Horse Park from Lane’s End Farm, where he had stood since the 2019 season. The stallion, whose oldest foals are 3, is the sire of stakes winners Hal and Super Accelerate. In his most recent seasons at stud, he covered 46 mares in 2022 and nine in 2023, according to The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares bred. “Accelerate is a very special horse to me and my family,” Kosta Hronis, whose Hronis Racing campaigned Accelerate, said in a Horse Park release. “I feel it is important for the Thoroughbred community to share its racing superstars with the fans of our sport. There is no better venue than the Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions to showcase the talent and charisma of the Thoroughbred breed, and no finer equine athlete than Accelerate to represent the Thoroughbred racehorse.” :: DRF's Black Friday Sale: Get 20% off (almost) everything in the DRF Shop. Code: BF2023 Accelerate, racing for the Hronis family and trainer John Sadler, won 10 of 23 career starts and only missed the board twice while earning more than $6.6 million. He won eight graded stakes. In his 2018 championship season, he ripped through California’s major Grade 1 stakes for older horses, winning the Santa Anita Handicap, Gold Cup at Santa Anita, Pacific Classic, and Awesome Again Stakes. He shipped to Churchill Downs to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic, securing the Eclipse Award as outstanding older dirt male – although Horse of the Year honors went to Triple Crown winner Justify. Roy H, an 11-year-old More Than Ready gelding, was the Eclipse Award champion male sprinter of 2017 and 2018, winning the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in both seasons. He won a total of seven graded stakes for Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen, and earned more than $3.1 million. Roy H was officially retired in 2020. He then worked as a barn pony for his trainer, Peter Miller, who became his owner. “Roy H was a once-in-a-lifetime horse,” Miller said in a release. “He was a joy to train and be around – all class, all the time. I look forward to visiting him at the Kentucky Horse Park.”  :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.