Goldikova

Amazing win. Nearly without the whip and froom behind. That is history

Simply the best (tu)

I didn't see the race, but just had to go look up Goldikova's form.

21 runs, 15 wins, earned 3 million pounds plus whatever she got today.

Her last 15 runs have been at Gr1 level and she has won 12 of them, including this Breeders' Cup Turf Mile 3 times.

Sabre she is in my mind the greatest Filly of all time including the one running later tonight

i'd agree with that Hibs, a truly incredible animal, her turn of foot was unreal.

CARTIER AWARD WINNERS

Two-Year-Old colt: Frankel

Two-Year-Old filly: Misty For Me

Three-Year-Old colt: Workforce

Three-Year-Old filly: Snow Fairy

Sprinter: Starspangledbanner

Stayer: Rite Of Passage

Older Horse: Goldikova

Horse of the Year: Goldikova

Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit: Richard Hannon

Superstar and still in traning.

Workforce wins Horse of the Year at ROA awards

THE exploits of Workforce in winning the Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe earned him the the title of ROA/Sportingbet.com Horse of the Year at Thursday night'sRacehorse Owners' Association awards in London.

The 29th ROA awards ceremony proved to be a memorable one for the colt's owner Khalid Abdullah, who won a total of five awards, including owner of the year.

Workforce also won the three-year-old colts' award, Abdullah's unbeaten Frankel was apopular choice in the two-year-old colt category and the owner's Tranquil Tiger, winner of the Winter Derby, was named all-weather horse of the year.

At opposite ends of the speed spectrum in Flat racing, July Cup winner Starspangledbanner was named outstanding sprinter and Ascot Gold Cup victor Rite Of Passage the outstanding stayer.

The three-year-old fillies' award went to dual Oaks heroine Snow Fairy, while Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Memory polled most votes among ROA members in the two-year-old filly category.

Dandino, winner of the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot, was named outstanding handicapper and Goldikova was outstanding older horse in a year in which she won five Group 1s.

Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Imperial Commander took the award for outstanding chaser. The outstanding hurdler crown went to Big Buck's, the winner of the World Hurdle who is unbeaten in more than two years.

In the novice jumps awards, the unbeaten Champion Hurdle prospect Peddlers Cross took the hurdling honours and Arkle Chase winner Sizing Europe triumphed in the chasing category. Christie's Foxhunter Chase winner Baby Run took the outstanding hunter chaser award.

ROA members voted Newbury as the racecourse of the year, the sixth time in the last seven years that the Berkshire track has been chosen.

Goldikova could sign off career in Hong Kong

GOLDIKOVA could end her career at Hong Kong this season, with the Hong Kong Mile under consideration for the superstar mare who will also be bidding for an unprecedented fourth successive victory in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

Trained by Freddie Head, the six-year-old created history when winning the race for the third year running at Churchill Downs last September, and Head mapped out a similar schedule to last year with the addition ofa possible trip to Sha Tin.

Speaking at Meydan, he said: "She's as well as she's ever been after having a spell at her owner's farm in Normandy.

"She's a six-year-old and is mature - but she's not an old lady yet.

"We will try and run in the same races as last year, starting off in the Prix d'Ispahan and then the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot.
One of the big plans is the Jacques le Marois again and the Breeders' Cup.

"If she wins the Breeders' Cup she could go for the Hong Kong Mile as she will not run next year."

Byword set for Goldikova clash in d'Ispahan

France: Royal Ascot winner Byword is set for a rematch with old rival Goldikova next month in the Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp, where only a half-length separated the pair last year.