Assessment and Honours
High Chaparral was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse in both 2002 and 2003. In 2001, High Chaparral was rated the seventh best two-year-old in Europe, nine pounds below the champion Johannesburg A year later, he was rated the second best racehorse in the world, two pounds behind Rock of Gibraltar. In 2003, High Chaparral was rated the equal-fourth best horse in the world by the International Federation of Horse Racing Authorities.
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