MIAMI -- Point Given, the beaten Kentucky Derby favorite who rebounded by winning four straight $1 million stakes, is Horse of the Year.

	Point Given bounced back from a disappointing Kentucky Derby to take the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

The strapping chestnut colt also was selected champion 3-year-old of 2001 in voting announced Monday night at the annual Eclipse Awards dinner in the Fountainbleu Hotel.

In both categories, Point Given was the first-place selection by the three voting groups -- racing secretaries for National Thoroughbred Racing Association member tracks, the Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association.

After finishing fifth in the Kentucky Derby, Point Given, owned by the Thoroughbred Corporation of Saudi Prince Ahmed Salman and trained by Bob Baffert, won the Preakness, Belmont Stakes, Haskell Invitational and Travers before being retired in August because of a ligament injury.

Tiznow overcame a back injury, won a second straight $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic and was the second choice of all three groups in voting for Horse of the Year. He was a unanimous pick as champion older horse.

European-based horses Johannesburg, Fantastic Light and Banks Hill won Eclipse Awards.

Johannesburg was voted champion 2-year-old colt or gelding on the strength of a victory in the 1 1/16 mile Juvenile on the NTRA Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships card on Oct. 27 at Belmont Park. It was his debut in the United States and on the dirt after having won all six starts at no longer than six furlongs in England, Ireland and France.

The Breeders' Cup win made Johannesburg the early favorite the Kentucky Derby. Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien, however, has not committed the colt to that race.

Fantastic Light was named male turf champion, and Banks Hill was voted female turf champion. Both were winners of Breeders' Cup races.

Squirtle Squirt, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint, was voted champion sprinter. A runner-up finish by a half-length to Squirtle Squirt cost Xtra Heat the sprint title, but she was voted champion 3-year-old filly on a record of nine wins, three seconds and a third in 13 starts at six and seven furlongs.

Tempera, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile filly, was selected champion of that division, and Gourmet Girl, who did not start in a Breeders' Cup race, was voted champion older filly or mare.

Pompeyo, a Chilean-bred 7-year-old gelding, who won both of his starts, was selected steeplechase champion.

Also winning Eclipse Awards were trainer Bobby Frankel, owner Richard Englander, breeder Juddmonte Farms, jockey Jerry Bailey and apprentice jockey Jeremy Rose.