Cartier Champion Stayer

The Cartier Champion Stayer is an award in European horse racing, founded in 1991, and sponsored by Cartier SA as part of the Cartier Racing Awards. The award winner is decided by points earned in group races plus the votes cast by British racing journalists and readers of the Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph newspapers.[1]

Records

Most successful horse (4 wins):

  • Yeats – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Leading trainer (9 wins):

Leading owner (9 wins):

Winners

Year
 Horse
 Age Gender Bred Trained Trainer
 Owner
1991 Turgeon 5 H USA FR Jonathan Pease George W. Strawbridge Jr.
1992 Drum Taps 6 H USA GB Lord Huntingdon Yoshio Asakawa
1993 Vintage Crop 6 G GB IRE Dermot Weld Michael Smurfit
1994 Moonax 3 C IRE GB Barry Hills Sheikh Mohammed
1995 Double Trigger 4 C IRE GB Mark Johnston R W Huggins
1996 Nononito 5 H USA FR Patrick Sebagh Jean Lesbordes
1997 Celeric 5 G GB GB John Dunlop Christopher Spence
1998 Kayf Tara 4 C GB GB Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin
1999 Kayf Tara 5 H GB GB Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin
2000 Kayf Tara 5 H GB GB Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin
2001 Persian Punch 8 G IRE GB David Elsworth Jeff Smith
2002 Vinnie Roe 4 C IRE IRE Dermot Weld Jim Sheridan
2003 Persian Punch 10 G IRE GB David Elsworth Jeff Smith
2004 Westerner 5 H GB FR Élie Lellouche Ecurie Wildenstein
2005 Westerner 6 H GB FR Élie Lellouche Ecurie Wildenstein
2006 Yeats 5 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Sue Magnier & Diane Nagle
2007 Yeats 6 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Sue Magnier & Diane Nagle
2008 Yeats 7 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Sue Magnier & Diane Nagle
2009 Yeats 8 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Sue Magnier & Diane Nagle
2010 Rite Of Passage 6 G GB IRE Dermot Weld Ronan Lamb
2011 Fame and Glory 5 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Smith, Magnier & Tabor
2012 Colour Vision 4 G FR GB Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin
2013 Estimate 4 F IRE GB Sir Michael Stoute Queen Elizabeth II
2014 Leading Light 4 C IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Smith, Magnier & Tabor
2015 Simple Verse 3 F IRE GB Ralph Beckett QBL, Sheikh Suhaim Al Thani, M Al Kubaisi
2016 Order of St George 4 C IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Magnier, Smith and Tabor
2017 Order of St George 5 H IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Magnier, Smith and Tabor
2018 Stradivarius 4 C IRE GB John Gosden Bjorn Nielsen
2019 Stradivarius[2] 5 H IRE GB John Gosden Bjorn Nielsen
2020 Stradivarius[3] 6 H IRE GB John Gosden Bjorn Nielsen
2021 Trueshan[4] 5 G FR GB Alan King Singula Partnership
2022 Kyprios[5] 4 C IRE IRE Aidan O'Brien Magnier, Smith and Tabor

References

  1. ^ Marcus Armytage (13 November 2012). "Cartier Awards 2012: Frankel sweeps board and takes top honour for second year". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  2. ^ Scargill, Peter (12 November 2019). "Enable scoops second Cartier Horse of the Year award". Racing Post.
  3. ^ Rennie, Matt (19 November 2020). "Ghaiyyath gets Cartier coronation after being crowned Horse of the Year". Racing Post.
  4. ^ Milnes, David (10 November 2021). "St Mark's Basilica voted horse of the year at annual ceremony in London". Racing Post.
  5. ^ Milnes, David (9 November 2022). "Baaeed crowned Cartier Horse of the Year and top older horse for 2022". Racing Post.