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    The 2007 Cartier Racing Awards, European horseracing’s equivalent of the Oscars, are announced at the stylish Awards’ dinner held in the ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel, Mayfair, London, UK, tomorrow evening.

    The eight horse categories, Horse Of The Year, Top Older Horse, Top Stayer, Top Sprinter, Three-Year-Old Colt, Three-Year-Old Filly, Two-Year-Old Colt and Two-Year-Old Filly, are revealed to an invited international gathering of leading owners, trainers, jockeys, breeders, media and racing personalities, including Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer, joint winners of the thrilling British jockeys’ championship which ended in dramatic fashion on Saturday.

    The equine awards, which honour the best horses of a tremendous 2007 Flat season, are decided by a well-established method, involving a combination of points achieved in Pattern races, the views of racing journalists on Cartier’s Racing Panel and votes from readers of Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph. The Pattern races count towards 40 per cent of the total for each award, with the Cartier Racing Panel’s deliberations also having a 40 per cent share and the votes of the newspaper readers making up the final 20 per cent.

    The 2007 Cartier Racing Panel is made up of chairman Brough Scott (The Sunday Telegraph), Marcus Armytage (The Daily Telegraph), Graham Dench (Racing Post), Chris McGrath (The Independent) and Julian Muscat (The Times).


    The nominations for each category this year are as follows:

    Cartier Horse of the Year - Authorized, Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Peeping Fawn, Ramonti

    Cartier Top Older Horse - Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Notnowcato, Ramonti, Yeats

    Cartier Top Stayer - Allegretto, Geordieland, Le Miracle, Macleya, Yeats

    Cartier Top Sprinter - Benbaun, Kingsgate Native, Red Clubs, Sakhee’s Secret, Soldiers Tale

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt - Authorized, Cockney Rebel, Excellent Art, Literato, Soldier Of Fortune

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly - Darjina, Finsceal Beo, Light Shift, Mrs Lindsay, Peeping Fawn

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt - Fast Company, Ibn Khaldun, Kingsgate Native, New Approach, Rio De La Plata

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly - Fleeting Spirit, Listen, Natagora, Saoirse Abu, Zarkava

    The Cartier Racing Awards, now in their 17th year, are recognised as the most prestigious within European horseracing.

    Last year’s event before an invited audience of nearly 300 saw Cartier Racing Awards won by the very popular Ouija Board, subject of a book this year by her owner the Earl of Derby, Finsceal Beo, who captured two Classics during 2007 and was beaten a head in a third, the great stayer Yeats, unbeaten Teofilo, top filly Mandesha, sprinter Reverence and George Washington, who gained a Cartier Racing Award for the second year running. Finsceal Beo and Yeats both have the chance to claim a second Cartier Ra cing Award tomorrow night.

    In addition to the eight horse awards, the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award Of Merit will be presented to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the special 20-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 Daily Telegraph Award of Merit is as follows; Peter Willett, Henry Cecil, David & Patricia Thompson, Lord Oaksey, Prince Khalid Abdullah, 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 2007 Cartier Jury is made up of Michael Bell, Charlie Brooks, Alan Byrne, the Earl of Derby, Mike Dillon, Ed Dunlop, Douglas Erskine-Crum, Rod Fabricius, Philip Freedman, Tom Goff, Lord Grimthorpe, Simon Marsh, Jim McGrath, Sir Peter O’Sullevan, Leo Powell, Ruth Quinn, Sam Sheppard, Brough Scott, Sir David Sieff and Howard Wright.

    The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to recognise excellence in the racehorse.
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    Cartier Top Stayer - Geordieland

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    It appears there's a "one horse per yard" in the category Bar.
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    Is it the Thompson's who own Cheveley Park Stud?
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    Cartier Horse of the Year - Dylan Thomas

    Cartier Top Older Horse - Dylan Thomas,

    Cartier Top Stayer - Yeats

    Cartier Top Sprinter - ???

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt - Literato

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly - Darjina

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt - New Approach

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly - Natagora
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    Ok:

    Cartier Horse of the Year - Authorized, Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Peeping Fawn, Ramonti
    Should be: Dylan Thomas, because he's the most openly-campaigned super-classy horse since Falbrav.

    Probably will be: Manduro, because too many have a hard-on for the Prince Of Wales, which might as well have been run over a mile, and because they weren't paying enough attention when he was an incredibly frustrating serial loser last year.

    Cartier Top Older Horse - Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Notnowcato, Ramonti, Yeats
    Same again.

    Cartier Top Stayer - Allegretto, Geordieland, Le Miracle, Macleya, Yeats
    Where the hell is Septimus? Yeats should and will win it from these. Geordiehound's presence is ridiculous.

    Cartier Top Sprinter - Benbaun, Kingsgate Native, Red Clubs, Sakhee’s Secret, Soldiers Tale
    Should: Benbaun, because he's been consistently at the top of the sprinting game and now finally has his Group 1.

    Will: Sakhee's Secret, because he won the July Cup.

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt - Authorized, Cockney Rebel, Excellent Art, Literato, Soldier Of Fortune
    Should: Authorized - not the perfect season he promised, but the best on the list in terms of pure achievement.

    Will: Authorized

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly - Darjina, Finsceal Beo, Light Shift, Mrs Lindsay, Peeping Fawn
    Should: Peeping Fawn - 4 Group 1 wins in the blink of an eye, (each time beating a Group 1 winner into second) across the full gamut of going. From the moment she took off coming into the Epsom straight and right through the summer, the most uncomplicatedly exciting horse of the year.

    Will: Darjina, because she beat the colts.

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt - Fast Company, Ibn Khaldun, Kingsgate Native, New Approach, Rio De La Plata
    Should and will: New Approach, easily.

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly - Fleeting Spirit, Listen, Natagora, Saoirse Abu, Zarkava
    Should: Zarkava - her Boussac win was the most exciting 2yo filly performance of the year.

    Will: Natagora, because she did it in Britain.

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    Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Nov 13 2007, 11:29 PM
    Will: Darjina, because she beat the colts.
    Disappointing.

    An underated filly (uses the U word in a forlorn hope to spark one last big flat debate before the winter). Pure class at her best. One that I think will prove the doubters wrong next year when she stays in training.
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    I'm not crabbing her, I just have a feeling she'll win and it'll be a bizarre world that Peeping Fawn can do what she did and not be considered the champion filly.

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    Queen Anne 2008. Ground like a road...

    ...they won't see which way she went.
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    I agree with all of Gareth's "shoulds".

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    Darjina is completely over hyped in my book. Take away her win against the colts (which she couldnt confirm next time out) and her form is relatively average in the context of how highly many rate her. Good though that she is staying in training next year.

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    It is all about the ground Galileo. Read the trainer's comments after the Pouliches. And then look at her subsequent performance on fastest ground she got.
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    On good ground she barely beat a knackered Finsceal Beo in the French Guineas. On soft ground she beat Missvinski further than she had previously done on good ground.

    Clearly she is a smart filly but her win against the colts exagerates her ability imo given she had never showed anything like that form previously (even on her favoured good ground) and nothing since at Ascot. It will be good to see her line up in the Queen Anne but I dont see anything in the form book to suggest "they won't see which way she went".

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    You would concede that there is likely to still be more to come on quick ground?
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    Cartier Horse of the Year - Dylan Thomas

    Cartier Top Older Horse - Dylan Thomas,

    Cartier Top Stayer - Yeats (Can't believe Septimus was not nominated..he would murder all bar Yeats )

    Cartier Top Sprinter - Sakhee’s Secret ...very weak division once again

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt - Authorized

    Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly - Peeping Fawn

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt - New Approach

    Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly - Natagora
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    Do you think Sanders'n'Spencer have a chance of the Award Of Merit?

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    Dylan Thomas won both awards.

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    Horse of Year: Dylan Thomas
    Older Horse: Dylan Thomas
    3-y-o Colt: Authorized
    3-y-o Filly: Peeping Fawn
    Stayer: Yeats
    Sprinter: Red Clubs
    2-y-o Colt: New Approach
    2-y-o Filly: Natagora

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