CHAMPS ELYSEES NAMED HORSE OF THE YEAR

Champs Elysees, trained by the late, great trainer Bobby Frankel, was named as Canada’s Horse of the Year for 2009 at a gala evening in Toronto last Friday. 
The son of Danehill won Canada’s richest race, the Canadian International, before being retired to stud. The son of wonder mare Hasili is a triple Gr1 winner and is an own brother to top European sire Dansili.

The unbeaten Hollinger, a son of South African sire Black MInnaloushe, was named champion 2yo male of the year. The gelding will be aimed at next year’s prestigious Queen’s Plate. For the first time in the awards’ history, a dead heat was declared when both Biofuel and Negligee were named champion 2yo female.

2YO MALE: Hollinger
2YO FEMALE: Biofuel
                         Negligee
3YO MALE: Eye Of the Leopard
3YO FEMALE: Milwaukee Appeal
OLDER FEMALE: Serenading
OLDER MALE: Marchfield
TURF MALE: Champs Elysees
TURF FEMALE: Points Of Grace
MALE SPRINTER: Field Comission 
FEMALE SPRINTER: Tribal Belle
BROODMARE OF THE YEAR: Pico Teneriffe

By: Sarah Whitelaw