Waikato Stud, IDL Breeding & wonder broodmare Parfore received the breeding industry's highest honours at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards held on Thursday evening in Hamilton.
The Awards celebrated an outstanding 2014-15 season for Kiwi-bred horses and New Zealand breeders, owners, trainers & jockeys in domestic & international comeptition.
Dominic Li's IDL Breeding Ltd won the coveted Breeder of the Year title after breeding Australian Group 1 winners Volkstock'n'barrell & Suavito from his small broodmare band based at Mana Park near Cambridge.
Mike Ryan's extraordinary mare Parfore, dam of Group 1 winners Terravista and Tiger Tees in 2014-15 was named Broodmare of the Year, and Waikato Stud completed a clean sweep of the stallion trophies. Savabeel won the Grosvenor Award (Champion New Zealand Sire by domestic earnings) and the Dewar Trophy (Champion New Zealand-based Sire by Australasian earnings), while the late, great O'Reilly claimed the Centaine Award with worldwide progeny earnigns of more than $11 million.
The award for Outstanding Contribution to New Zealand Racing was presented to the celebrated breeders, owners, trainers & vendors, the Dennis brothers, Joe, Martin, Ray and Tony.
From their base at Woodlands in Southland, they have enjoyed a half-century of remarkable success with top-class horses that have won Derbys, Oaks, Cups and weight-for-age features, including the Cox Plate. Major performers bred by the quartet include The Phantom Chance, The Jewel, The Phantom, The Twinkle and The Diamond One and Broodmares of the Year, The Pixie, The Fantasy and The Grin.
Pin-up colt Mongolian Khan, the dual Group One winner of the New Zealand Derby and the Australian Derby, was an overwhelming winner of the Horse of the Year, Champion Three-Year-Old and Champion Stayer awards.
He is raced by the Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry, who were named the Owners of the Year, while Sir Peter Vela claimed the Owners' Premiership Award.
While Mongolian Khan was their flagship performer, Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman had significant depth within their stable ranks and completed a record-breaking season to be crowned the Trainers of the Year.
They surpassed John Sargent's 2011-12 mark of 111 by rolling out 113 winners, including 17 at Group or Listed level, of $3,273,070. Their strike rate of 4.83 was unmatched by any other trainer in the top 60 on the Premiership.
2015 NZ Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Award Winners
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The Awards celebrated an outstanding 2014-15 season for Kiwi-bred horses and New Zealand breeders, owners, trainers & jockeys in domestic & international comeptition.
Dominic Li's IDL Breeding Ltd won the coveted Breeder of the Year title after breeding Australian Group 1 winners Volkstock'n'barrell & Suavito from his small broodmare band based at Mana Park near Cambridge.
Mike Ryan's extraordinary mare Parfore, dam of Group 1 winners Terravista and Tiger Tees in 2014-15 was named Broodmare of the Year, and Waikato Stud completed a clean sweep of the stallion trophies. Savabeel won the Grosvenor Award (Champion New Zealand Sire by domestic earnings) and the Dewar Trophy (Champion New Zealand-based Sire by Australasian earnings), while the late, great O'Reilly claimed the Centaine Award with worldwide progeny earnigns of more than $11 million.
The award for Outstanding Contribution to New Zealand Racing was presented to the celebrated breeders, owners, trainers & vendors, the Dennis brothers, Joe, Martin, Ray and Tony.
From their base at Woodlands in Southland, they have enjoyed a half-century of remarkable success with top-class horses that have won Derbys, Oaks, Cups and weight-for-age features, including the Cox Plate. Major performers bred by the quartet include The Phantom Chance, The Jewel, The Phantom, The Twinkle and The Diamond One and Broodmares of the Year, The Pixie, The Fantasy and The Grin.
Pin-up colt Mongolian Khan, the dual Group One winner of the New Zealand Derby and the Australian Derby, was an overwhelming winner of the Horse of the Year, Champion Three-Year-Old and Champion Stayer awards.
He is raced by the Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry, who were named the Owners of the Year, while Sir Peter Vela claimed the Owners' Premiership Award.
While Mongolian Khan was their flagship performer, Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman had significant depth within their stable ranks and completed a record-breaking season to be crowned the Trainers of the Year.
They surpassed John Sargent's 2011-12 mark of 111 by rolling out 113 winners, including 17 at Group or Listed level, of $3,273,070. Their strike rate of 4.83 was unmatched by any other trainer in the top 60 on the Premiership.
2015 NZ Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Award Winners
| AWARD | WINNER |
| Grosvenor Award (NZ earnings) | Savabeel (Zabeel-Savannah Success) |
| Dewar Award (Australasian earnings) | Savabeel (Zabeel-Savannah Success) |
| Centaine Award (Worldwide earnings) | O'Reilly (Last Tycoon-Courtza) |
| Broodmare of the Year | Parfore (Gold Brose-Classy Twiggy) dam of Terravista and Tiger Tees |
| Breeder of the Year | IDL Breeding Ltd. breeder of Volkstok'n'barrell & Sauvito |
| NZB Filly of the Year | Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse) |
| Media Award | Brendan Popplewell, Trackside |
| McBeath Apprentice Jockey of the Year | Rory Hutchings |
| Jumps Jockey of the Year | Michael Mitchell |
| Jockey of the Year | Matthew Cameron |
| Jockeys' Premiership | Matthew Cameron |
| Dunstan Trainer of the Year | Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman |
| Trainers' Premiership | Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman |
| Owner of the Year | Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry (NZ) Ltd |
| Owners' Premiership | Sir Peter Vela |
| Champion Jumper | Amanood Lad |
| Champion Two-Year-Old | Marky Mark |
| Champion Three-Year-Old | Mongolian Khan |
| Champion Sprinter (up to 1500m) | Sacred Star |
| Champion Middle Distance Horse (1501-2100m) | Soriano |
| Champion Stayer (2101m +) | Mongolian Khan |
| NZTR Award for Outstanding Global Achievement | James McDonald |
| NZTR Award for Outstanding Contribution To NZ Racing | Joe, Martin, Ray and Tony Dennis |
| 2015 Horse of the Year | Mongolian Khan |
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