Zoustar Filly Honoured at Cartier European Horse of the Year Awards

Tara Madgwick - Thursday November 10

Recently retired to stand at Shadwell, Baaeed took the top honours at the 32nd Cartier Racing Awards when crowned Horse of the Year and Older Horse of the Year at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Wednesday evening with Zoustar filly Lezoo crowned Champion 2YO Filly.

Baaeed is the 2022 European Horse of the Year - image Shadwell

The William Haggas trained son of Sea the Stars enjoyed a stellar year racking up four Group I wins and is the first Shadwell bred and owned horse to take the prize.

The winners were:

Horse of the Year Baaeed (Sea the Stars)

Champion Older Horse Baaeed (Sea the Stars)

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Champion 3YO Colt Vadeni (Churchill)

Champion 3YO Filly Inspiral (Frankel)

Champion 2YO Colt Blackbeard (No Nay Never)

Champion 2YO Filly Lezoo (Zoustar)

Champion Sprinter Highfield Princess (Night of Thunder)

Champion Stayer Kyprios (Galileo)

 

Champion 2YO Filly Lezoo comes from the first Northern Hemisphere crop of foals by Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar, who has sired 14 winners in Europe this year.

Trained by Ralph Beckett, Lezoo had five starts for four wins and a second.

The recipient of the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit for 2022 was Alpinista’s owner-breeder Kirsten Rausing, who is also the breeder of imported Australian Group I winners Zaaki and Durston.

Laurent Feniou, managing director of Cartier UK, said: “Baaeed lit up the season with four brilliant victories and he is a worthy recipient of the Cartier Horse of the Year award. We are also thrilled to honour Kirsten Rausing, who has given so much to the industry.”

 

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