Calandagan was named Cartier Horse of the Year at the 35th Cartier Racing Awards and also won the Older Horse award.
Francis-Henri Graffard’s four-year-old has not finished in the top two in five starts in 2025 and has won three Group One titles, including the King George and QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot.
He took the prize ahead of QIPCO Champion Stakes runner-up Ombudsman, who also won the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and Juddmonte International, and multiple Group 1 winners Delacroix and Minnie Hauk, three-year-olds.
Calandagan is the fourth horse bred by the Aga Khan Studs to be named Cartier Horse of the Year, following Daylami (1999), Dalakhani (2003) and Zarkava (2008), and the first since the death of His Highness Aga Khan IV in February.
Minnie Hauk recorded her third Oaks win of the season at Yorkshire.
Aidan O’Brien Delacroix and mini hawk Cartier collected a three-year-old colt statue and a three-year-old mare statue, and the stable friends accurate (2-year-old mare) and Gstaad (2-year-old colt) was also one of the winners.
top stay Trollerman This year, they continued their undefeated domestic season and swept the Gold Cup and Long Distance Cup. Aspora Thanks to his wins at Nunthorpe and the Prix de l’Abbaye, he becomes the third Australian horse to win the Sprinter award, following Black Caviar (2012) and Starspangledbanner (2010).
