The 2006 Cartier Racing Awards Approach The 2006 Cartier Racing Awards, European racing´s equivalent of the Oscars, will be unveiled in tremendous style on the evening of Wednesday, November 15, at the Four Seasons Hotel in London, England.The awards, recognised as the most prestigious within European horseracing, will honour the best horses of an exceptional Flat season, as well as a man (men) or woman (women) who has (have) made an outstanding contribution to the sport. This is the 16th year of the Cartier Racing Awards.The eight horse awards are decided by a tried and tested 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, 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 horse categories are Cartier Horse Of The Year, Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt, Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly, Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt, Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly, Cartier Stayer, Cartier Sprinter and Cartier Older Horse.Last year´s ceremony before an invited audience of 280 saw Cartier Racing Awards won by George Washington, Hurricane Run, Divine Proportions, Westerner and Azamour among others.The Cartier / Daily Telegraph Award Of Merit is for the person or persons who, in the opinion of the special 18-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; 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 2006 Cartier Jury includes Charlie Brooks, Alan Byrne, Mick Channon, Luca Cumani, the Earl of Derby, Mike Dillon, Douglas Erskine-Crum, Christopher Foster, Philip Freedman, Lord Grimthorpe, Peter Jones, Simon Marsh, Jim McGrath, Peter O´Sullevan, Anthony Penfold, Brough Scott, Sir David Sieff and Howard Wright.The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to recognise excellence in the racehorse.
