Equus Awards

Congratulations to all the winners tonight. Each category seemed most deserving!

A special mention must go to Albert Boshoff! You are a star my friend! keep up the good work and stay positive!

I only have 1 question. Perhaps Magic or one of the other informed individuals can help me out. How do they choose the owner of the year? Is it simply based on stakes earnings/regular earnings, winners or just how much money they spend each year? I was just wondering as I was of the opinion that there were a few other owners out there who were more deserving this year?

Anyway just interested to know if anybody does!

Asked the same question the other day Tommy, they awards go to the leader of the Category`s automatically no one decides them

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> Asked the same question the other day Tommy, they
> awards go to the leader of the Category`s
> automatically no one decides them


Thanks Bob

Well done Kobus you are a star (tu)

From Tab on line

Irish Flame gets SA racing's highest accolade at 2010 Equus Awards

NICCI GARNER - IRISH FLAME, owned by Larry Nestadt, Bernard Kantor, Gary Barber and Percy von Molendorff and trained by Mike de Kock, has been awarded South African horseracing’s highest accolade.

South African horseracing’s Equus Awards for the 2009-10 season were presented by Racing South Africa at a plush black-tie function at Emperors Palace last night and the coveted Horse of the Year award went to the Millenium Stud-bred son of Dynasty.

Irish Flame was a revelation during the 2009-10 racing season. He started his career with Dean Kannemeyer in the Cape and won three of his first four starts, including the Politician Stakes.

After running a disappointing race behind Bravura in the Investec Cape Derby, original owner Percy von Molendorf sold a majority share in him to Larry Nestadt, Bernard Kantor and Gary Barber and he was transferred to the Highveld yard of champion trainer Mike de Kock in March.

He proceeded to set the world alight and some two months after his arrival in Joburg he landed his first Grade 1 win when annihilating Triple Crown contender Pierre Jourdan in the SA Derby. He went on to win both the Grade 1 Daily News 2000 and Gold Circle Derby (Grade 2).

He then very nearly won the country’s premier race, the Vodacom Durban July, but giving 0.5kg was thwarted by a length by his top-class stable companion Bold Silvano.

Little wonder then, that the Equus Awards panel not only voted him Horse of the Year. His owners received two other awards for their star runner - Champion Three-Year-Old Colt/Gelding and Champion Stayer.

Bold Silvano’s connections, Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum and Gill Thomson, were not left out of the Equus Award celebrations because their Silvano colt was voted Champion Middle-Distance Horse.

The De Kock stable dominated the awards, taking home nine trophies. De Kock took the Champion Trainer award after his runners earned a record R22.2 million in stakes and he also trains the champion two-year-old and three-year-old fillies for last season in Mahbooba and Here To Win respectively as well as the champion older filly or mare, Mother Russia.

Irish Flame, Bold Silvano, Here To Win and Mahbooba are en-route to Dubai and De Kock has big plans for them in the desert.

In addition Lizard’s Desire’s breeder, Albert Boshoff, received a the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s International Achievement Award.

De Kock, of course, handled Lizard’s Desire’s overseas campaign and the Lizard Island gelding, who is still fighting off life-threatening laminitis, finished a close second in both the Dubai World Cup and the QEII Cup in Hong Kong before winning the Singapore Airlines International Cup.

Many experts believed that lightning-fast JJ The Jet Plane had done enough in winning two G1 races - the Golden Horse Casino Sprint and the Mercury Sprint - to win the Horse Of The Year title. While they will be disappointed the country’s highest-ranked horse did not get the award, they can take comfort in the two trophies the Jet Master gelding’s connections did receive. He was named Champion Sprinter and Champion Older Male.

JJ The Jet Plane was bred by Pat Devine and is owned by Hennie du Preez, Coenie Strydom, Thea Boyens and his trainer, Lucky Houdalakis.

- The awards were decided by a panel chaired by Phumelela’s Betting Executive Vee Moodley. The voting panel comprised Phumelela Horseracing Executive Patrick Davis, Gold Circle Chief Operating Officer Graeme Hawkins, Phumelela Marketing and Communications Manager Robert Garner, Tellytrack head Nico Kritsiotis, Form Organisation’s Jehan Malherbe, KZN commentator Sheldon Peters and the National Horseracing Authority’s chief handicapper Roger Smith.

EQUUS AWARD WINNERS 2009-2010

Two-Year-Old Filly
Mahbooba (Aus)

Two-Year-Old Colt
Link Man

Three-Year-Old Filly
Here To Win (Bzl)

Three-Year-Old Colt/Gelding
Irish Flame

Older Filly/Mare
Mother Russia

Older Horse/Gelding
JJ The Jet Plane

Sprinter
JJ The Jet Plane

Middle-Distance Horse
Bold Silvano

Stayer
Irish Flame

Outstanding Achievement
Hear The Drums

Champion Stallion
Jet Master

Broodmare Of The Year
Stormsvlei

Champion Breeder
Summerhill Stud

Breeder - International Achievement
AJ Boshoff (Lizard’s Desire)

Breeder Of The Year
Ascot Stud

Work rider of the Year
John Nel

Apprentice Of The Year
Aldo Domeyer

Champion Jockey
Anton Marcus

Champion Trainer
Mike de Kock

Owner Of The Year
Ingrid and Markus Jooste

Horse Of The Year
Irish Flame

Congrats to all the winners...

Must say does anyone else ever get a chance in South African racing to be involved? the same people seem to do everything

Congratulations Jack Dash. For a small breeder to sweep the awards like this is magnificent.

It's nice to receive a reward for achievement....

The biggest reward must be to the punters who help keeping this game afloat.

I would really like to take this oppurtunity to thank all our punters out there.... for allowing us as owners and Breeders the chance to be involved in this game.
Without you's we won't have this sport.... we do appreciate it enormously.

The word punter may refer to:

A British, Australian and Hiberno (Irish) English colloquial term for a paying guest or customer, especially
a patron of a public house
a patron of a brothel
a customer of a prostitute
a gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing or a player in the game of Baccarat

we all thank you Kobus

If you punt with Saftote,you are 3 of the above lol

Congrats Kobus, Jack and Lucky

Congrats to all the winners; imo special mention must be made of Kobus and Jack Dash, for breeding 2 champion race horses from rather limited opportunities - fantastic achievements.