Cartier Award Finalists Announced Ahead of Ceremony

Nominations were announced Nov. 16 for the 35th Cartier Racing Awards, which will be presented at the Dorchester Hotel in London the evening of Nov. 19. Four contenders for the Cartier Horse Of The Year include Calandagan, winner of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and Champion Stakes. He is joined by Ombudsman, who registered top-level wins in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes and Juddmonte International Stakes. Coral-Eclipse and Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes victor Delacroix and Minnie Hauk, successful in the Betfred Oaks, Juddmonte Irish Oaks and Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks, are the other nominations for the evening's premier equine award. In addition to the Cartier Horse Of The Year award, there are seven other equine categories - the Cartier Older Horse, the Cartier Sprinter, the Cartier Stayer, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly, the Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt and the Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly. The non-equine award presented during the ceremony is the Cartier/The Daily Telegraph Award of Merit, which goes to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the 15-strong Cartier jury, has done the most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months. The nominations for the 2025 Cartier Racing Awards are: Cartier Horse of the Year Calandagan Delacroix Minnie Hauk Ombudsman Cartier Older Horse Calandagan Fallen Angel Ombudsman Rebel's Romance Cartier 3-Year-Old Colt Daryz Delacroix Field Of Gold Lambourn Cartier 3-Year-Old Filly Desert Flower Gezora Minnie Hauk Whirl Cartier Sprinter Asfoora Arizona Blaze Big Mojo Lazzat Cartier Stayer Al Riffa Scandinavia Sweet William Trawlerman Cartier 2-Year-Old Colt Gewan Gstaad Puerto Rico Zavateri Cartier 2-Year-Old Filly Diamond Necklace Precise True Love Venetian Sun