HKJC Champion Awards

[my miss storm cat]

I suppose we could find an address or two in HK and pretend to live there so we could vote.....

http://special.hkjc.com/promo/en/200...7ca_voting.asp

[NoChanceToDance]

Got to be Viva Pataca all the way. This horse is a star.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Got to be Viva Pataca all the way. This horse is a star.

I think that's pretty much a done deal although it's too bad for VOR.....

First award was just given out..... Medic power wins most improved.

Champion Miler is the one i can't wait for.....

[my miss storm cat]

SOOOOO happy.... VENGEANCE OF RAIN wins Horse of the Year!!!!

BULLDOZER WINS!
Replay...
(paid 504.00)


http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/R...2007&RaceNo=11

Vengeance Of Rain crowned Horse of the Year

2 July 2007

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Champion Awards presentation ceremony was held today at the season-end ''HKSAR 10th Anniversary Raceday'' and Vengeance Of Rain was crowned Horse of the Year as well as the Champion Stayer and Most Popular Horse of the Year.

Trainer Caspar Fownes and Jockey Douglas Whyte were honoured as the Champion Trainer and Champion Jockey respectively.

Never before had such a difficult task faced the Champions Awards Judging Panel in electing a Horse of the Year. It boiled down to a choice between Vengeance Of Rain and Viva Pataca who won four Gr.1 races between them, one apiece at international Gr.1 level.

Vengeance Of Rain won the Hong Kong Gold Cup (from Viva Pataca) and the Dubai Sheema Classic, the joint-richest race in the world on turf, in March. The latter accomplishment, his sixth Gr.1 success, came from a top class international field and propelled him into the all-time top ten of stakes earners worldwide.

The 2006/07 Champion Awards winners in the categories as follows:

Hong Kong Jockey Club Champion Awards (2006/2007)

Award
Winner
Owner
Trainer

Horse of the Year
Vengeance Of Rain
Raymond Gianco Chow Hon Man & the Executors of the Estate of the late Chow Nam
David Ferraris

Champion Sprinter
Absolute Champion
Mr & Mrs Eddie Wong Ming Chak
David Hall

Champion Miler
Armada
Wong Yuk Lun
John Size

Champion Middle Distance
Viva Pataca


Stanley Ho Hung Sun
John Moore

Champion Stayer
Vengeance Of Rain
Raymond Gianco Chow Hon Man & the Executors of the Estate of the late Chow Nam
David Ferraris

Champion Griffin
Joy And Fun
Mr & Mrs Johnny Wong Chun Nam
Derek Cruz

Most Improved Horse
Medic Power
Medipal Syndicate
Paul O'Sullivan

2005 Hong Kong International Sale Bonus Winner
Noble Conqueror


Zen Win Syndicate


Caspar Fownes



Lifetime Achievement Award
Silent Witness
Arthur Antonio da Silva, Betty da Silva, Antonio Marcus da Silva & Teresa Marieda Silva
Anthony S Cruz



Champion Trainer
Caspar Fownes (61 wins)

Champion Jockey
Douglas Whyte (91 wins)

Champion Apprentice Jockey
Terry Wong (29 wins)


The Panel also decided to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Silent Witness, Horse of the Year in 2003/04 and 2004/05, in recognition of his great contribution to Hong Kong racing. Silent Witness achieved 17 consecutive race successes, includingthe two triumphs in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint, two clean sweeps of the Champion Sprint Series and a victory in the Sprinters Stakes. TimeMagazine voted him as one of the "people" who mattered most in the world in 2004.

Regarding the Most Popular Horse and Most Popular Jockey of the Year, a total of 236,502 votes have been received in this year's voting and the Hong Kong Jockey Club greatly appreciated the response from the public. Vengeance Of Rain was voted as the Most Popular Horse of the Year (52,962 votes) while Brett Prebble became the Most Popular Jockey of the Year (52,425votes). The total number of votes and the three horses and jockeys with the highest number of votes were as follows:

Most Popular Horse of the Year
Most Popular Jockey of the Year

1. Vengeance Of Rain
52,962votes
1. Brett Prebble
52,425votes

2. Viva Pataca
32,775votes
2. Douglas Whyte
39,671votes

3. Medic Power
11,676votes
3. Howard Cheng
7,696votes