HORSE OF THE YEAR AWARD:GOLDIKOVA WAS named Horse of the Year at the 2010 Cartier Racing Awards in London. The amazing five-year-old mare has enjoyed a stellar season, and also becomes the first horse to win the older horse award for a second successive year.
She landed five wins at the top level in 2010, culminating in an historic third Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs for trainer Freddie Head, jockey Oliver Peslier and her owner-breeders, Alain and Gerard Wertheimer.
Goldikova stays in training next year when she will try to add to her record-breaking total of 12 Group/Grade One victories.
The Michael Stoute-trained Workforce, winner of the Investec Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, took the champion three-year-old colt prize.
Ed Dunlop’s dual Oaks heroine Snow Fairy is the champion three-year-old filly, named just days after crowning a fine campaign in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup in Japan.
Henry Cecil’s star juvenile Frankel is the two-year-old colt of 2010 after maintaining his flawless record in the Dewhurst Stakes.
Champion two-year-old filly Misty For Me and top sprinter Starspangledbanner gave trainer Aidan O’Brien double cause for celebration.
There was another Irish triumph in the shape of Dermot Weld’s Rite Of Passage, who was named champion stayer thanks to his win in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.
Richard Hannon, who clinched a second British trainers’ title, was voted Cartier Award of Merit winner.
This honour is given to the person who, in the opinion of the 18-strong Cartier jury, has done most for European racing over their lifetime, or within the past 12 months.
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