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Cartier Racing Awards 2010
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Goldikova is Cartier Horse Of The Year
17/11/10
Goldikova, undeniably the outstanding champion of recent times, is tonight named Cartier Horse Of The Year at the 2010 Cartier Racing Awards, and the exceptional racemare also receives the Cartier Older Horse Award for the second year running.
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The awards are announced for the 20th year running before an invited audience of 350 on the evening of Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, London, England.
The brilliant five-year-old enjoyed a stellar season as she won five Group/Grade One races, including a sensational and unprecedented third TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs, USA, on November 6, for trainer Freddy Head, jockey Oliver Peslier and her sporting owner/breeders, Alain & Gerard Wertheimer
Goldikova stays in training next year and could add to her record-breaking total of 12 Group/Grade One triumphs by a European-based horse. Her European victories this season came in the Prix d’Ispahan, Queen Anne Stakes, Prix Rothschild and Prix de la Foret, while her only defeat was a runner-up finish on very soft ground behind the talented Classic-winning three-year-old colt Makfi.
Famous for an electric burst of speed that none of her rivals possess, Goldikova is the darling of European racing and is the first horse to receive the Cartier Older Horse Award more than once.
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Snow Fairy, who gained two Classics and won a Japanese Group One impressively on Sunday, takes the Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Award ahead of Prix de Diane heroine Sarafina, Melbourne Cup winner Americain and dual Group One hero Gentoo in the Cartier Champion Stayer Award, followed by The Irish Field St Leger victor Sans Frontieres and classy French stayer Celtic Celeb.
Richard Hannon, the outstanding trainer who clinched a second British trainers’ title at the end of a remarkable 2010 season, has been voted this year’s Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit winner. The award is for the person or persons who, in the opinion of the special 18-strong Cartier Jury, has/have done most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months.
The list of past winners of the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit is as follows: John Oxx, Sheikh Mohmmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Niarchos Family, Peter Willett, Henry Cecil, David & Patricia Thompson, Lord Oaksey, Prince Khalid Abdulla, John Magnier, His Highness the Aga Khan, Peter Walwyn, the Head Family, Sir Peter O’Sullevan, Frankie Dettori, John Dunlop, the Marquess of Hartington, Francois Boutin, Lester Piggott and Henri Chalhoub.
The highly-coveted horse awards were determined by points earned in Pattern races during 2010, combined with the opinions of a of racing journalists headed by Brough Scott, plus votes from readers of the Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph, a system that over the years has accurately rewarded supreme excellence.
The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to recognise the achievements of racehorses in Europe.
2010 - CARTIER RACING AWARDS
Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt: Frankel
Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly: Misty For Me
Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt: Workforce
Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly: Snow Fairy
Cartier Sprinter: Starspangledbanner
Cartier Stayer: Rite Of age
Cartier Older Horse: Goldikova
Cartier Horse of the Year: Goldikova
Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit: Richard Hannon
