Cartier Racing Award Explained

The Cartier Racing Awards are awards in European horse racing, founded in 1991, and sponsored by Cartier. The award winners are decided by points earned in group races (40%) plus the votes cast by British racing journalists (30%) and readers of the Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph newspapers (30%).^[1]

Eight horse awards are given out annually plus the Daily Telegraph Award of Merit to the person whom members of the Cartier jury believe has done the most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the previous 12 months.

The highest Cartier award for horses is "Horse of the Year".

The equivalent in Australia is the Australian Thoroughbred racing awards, in Japan the JRA Awards, in Canada the Sovereign Awards, and in the United States the Eclipse Awards.

Horse names are followed by a suffix indicating the country where foaled.

Horse of the Year

Top Older Horse

Top Stayer

Top Sprinter

Three-Year-Old Colt

Three-Year-Old Filly

Two-Year-Old Colt

Revoque was named Champion Two-Year-Old; Bahamian Bounty was named Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.^[10]

Two-Year-Old Filly

The Daily Telegraph Award of Merit

Other awards

2002

Special Award – Tony McCoy

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Millennium Award of Merit – Queen Elizabeth II

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Records

Leading horses:

5 wins: Frankel, Enable
4 wins: Ouija Board, Yeats
3 wins: Goldikova, Lochsong, Kayf Tara, Minding, Stradivarius

Leading trainers:

38 wins: Aidan O'Brien
20 wins: John Gosden
15 wins: Saeed bin Suroor
10 wins: Henry Cecil

References

bbc.co.uk – "Sea the Stars named horse of year" (2009)
independent.ie – "Sea the Stars team clean up at Cartier awards" (2009)

Notes and References

Web site: Horse Racing: Reverence leapfrogs Les Arcs with double; Cartier AWARDS in association with RACING POST. Free Online Library.
Web site: Arc hero Ace Impact crowned 2023 Horse of the Year at Cartier Awards . Maddy. Playle. 10 November 2022. Racing Post.
Web site: Baaeed crowned Cartier Horse of the Year and top older horse for 2022 . David. Milnes. 9 November 2022. Racing Post.
Web site: St Mark's Basilica voted horse of the year at annual ceremony in London . David. Milnes. 10 November 2021. Racing Post.
Web site: Ghaiyyath gets Cartier coronation after being crowned Horse of the Year. Racing Post. 19 November 2020. Matt. Rennie.
Web site: Enable scoops second Cartier Horse of the Year award. Racing Post. 12 November 2019. Peter. Scargill.
News: Roaring Lion seals stunning year with top Cartier award. Marcus. Armytage. 13 November 2018. The Daily Telegraph.
Web site: Cartier Racing Awards 2017: Enable named Horse of the Year. 14 November 2017. BBC.
Web site: Cartier Racing Awards 2016: Minding named Horse of the Year. 8 November 2016. BBC.
News: Royal return of pounds 51 on the Tote for 5-1 winner. 20 November 1996. The Independent.