 | CARTIER AWARD WINNERS 2007 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 |
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Dylan Thomas has been named Horse of the Year at the Cartier Racing Awards. The four-year-old Danehill colt, trained by Aidan O'Brien in Ireland, won four Group One races in 2007.
Jockey Kieren Fallon called him "the best horse I've ridden" after winning the Irish Champion Stakes on the horse.
Dylan Thomas, who may race for one last time in the Japan Cup on 25 November, beat Derby winner Authorized, Manduro, Ramonti and Peeping Fawn to the honour.
At an awards ceremony in London, O'Brien made it a memorable night by providing a further two award winners in Peeping Fawn and Yeats.
Peeping Fawn earned the award for top three-year-old filly after winning four Group One races - the Pretty Polly Stakes, Irish Oaks, Nassau Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks.
Yeats, winner of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in both 2006 and 2007, landed the leading stayer title for the second successive year.
Another Irish trainer, Jim Bolger, captured the two-year-old colt award with the unbeaten dual Group One winner New Approach.
Natagora, trained in France by Pascal Bary, won the fillies' equivalent following her victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes.
Epsom Derby winner Authorized, from Peter Chapple-Hyam's stable, was named the three-year-old colt of 2007 ahead of Cockney Rebel, Excellent Art, Literato and Soldier Of Fortune.
The Barry Hills-trained Red Clubs was top sprinter, while the Niarchos Family was given the Order of Merit award to recognise their achievements in owning or breeding scores of big-race winners over a period of more than 50 years.
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