Calandagan has been topped Cartier Horse of the Yr on the thirty fifth Cartier Racing Awards, additionally claiming the prize for Older Horse.
Francis-Henri Graffard’s four-year-old was not out of the highest two in 5 begins in 2025, touchdown three Group One titles together with the King George and the QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot.
He takes award forward of QIPCO Champion Stakes runner-up Ombudsman, who captured the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and Juddmonte Worldwide, and a number of Group One-winning three-year-olds Delacroix and Minnie Hauk.
Calandagan is the fourth horse bred by the Aga Khan Studs to be topped Cartier Horse of the Yr following Daylami (1999), Dalakhani (2003) and Zarkava (2008), and the primary because the passing of His Highness Aga Khan IV in February.
Aidan O’Brien’s Delacroix and Minnie Hauk accumulate the Cartier Three-Yr-Previous Colt and Three-Yr-Previous Filly awards, respectively, whereas stablemates Exact (Two-Yr-Previous Filly) and Gstaad (Two-Yr-Previous Colt) had been additionally among the many winners.
Prime Stayer Trawlerman went unbeaten throughout his home marketing campaign this yr, selecting up the Gold Cup and Lengthy Distance Cup, whereas Asfoora turns into the third Australian-bred horse to obtain the Sprinter award following Black Caviar (2012) and Starspangledbanner (2010) due to her wins within the Nunthorpe and Prix de l’Abbaye.
