Introduced in 2019, the Golden Eagle is a set-weights race contested by four-year-olds over 1500 metres each spring and compete for their share in $10 million worth of prize money.

Golden feathers cap the crown and nape, making identification easy if the bird is seen. It takes five years for a golden eagle to reach maturity, and first-year birds have prominent white splashes ...

A golden eagle drawing by Kevin Lin, a Duluth 11th-grader and SKA Academy of Art and Design student, led the contest’s 108 entries from 35 public, private and home schools statewide.