Enable was crowned 2019 Cartier Horse Of The Year at the 29th annual Cartier Racing awards, European horseracing’s equivalent of the Oscars, on Tuesday evening in London.
Bred by owner Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, the five-year-old mare added a further three Gr1 successes to her remarkable CV in 2019, with victories in the Coral-Eclipse, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes and Darley Yorkshire Oaks.
This is the second time Enable has been crowned Cartier Horse Of The Year, with the great mare having previously taken the top honour in 2017.
She becomes just the third horse to be a two-time Cartier Horse Of The Year after Frankel (2011 & 2012) and Ouija Board (2004 & 2006).
The Nathaniel mare, the only European-based filly or mare to gather career earnings of over £10 million in prize money, remains in training for 2020.
She is also the Cartier Older Horse for 2019 and equals the record of the legendary Frankel, another Juddmonte homebred, in gaining five Cartier Racing Awards, having also been named Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly in 2017 and Cartier Older Horse in 2018.
Horses trained by John Gosden in Newmarket have now taken the Cartier Horse Of Year Award in five of the last six years, courtesy of Kingman (2014), Golden Horn (2015), Roaring Lion (2018) and Enable (2017 & 2019).
The other nominees for Cartier Horse Of The Year in 2019 were Blue Point, Magical, Star Catcher, Stradivarius and Waldgeist, while the nominees for Cartier Older Horse this year included Blue Point, Crystal Ocean, Magical, Stradivarius and Waldgeist.
The 2019 season was undoubtedly the year of Gosden and jockey Frankie Dettori.
In addition to Enable’s two Cartier Racing Awards, the pair also gained honours with horses in the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt, Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly and Cartier Stayer categories.
All the winners
Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt
- Pinatubo
Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly
- Quadrilateral
Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt
- Too Darn Hot
Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly
- Star Catcher
Cartier Sprinter
- Blue Point
Cartier Stayer
- Stradivarius
Cartier Older Horse
- Enable
Cartier Horse of the Year
- Enable owned by Prince Khalid Abdullah
Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit
- Pat Smullen
