The Jockey Club of Canada will host their 36th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony to honour the Canadian Champions of 2010, on Friday, April 1, 2011, on the third floor of Woodbine Race Track in Toronto. Woodbine Entertainment Group will join in the celebration as they get ready to kick-off their 2011 Live Thoroughbred meet on Saturday, April 2, a date which represents the start of thoroughbred racing in Canada.
This elegant cocktail-attire celebration will include a welcome back reception, a buffet-style gourmet dinner, and magical entertainment along with the evening’s feature event, the presentation of the Sovereign Award Trophies to Canada’s Racing Champions of 2010 and Canada’s Horse of the Year.
Tickets are $175 each and must be reserved in advance by contacting The Jockey Club of Canada at 416-675-7756 or email: jockeyclub@bellnet.ca
In an effort to promote equal opportunity in determining the winners of the 17 race award categories, the voting began January 1, 2011, allowing for statistics for the entire year to be considered. The finalists and eventual winner were determined using a computerized points system based on each voter’s first, second and third choice in each category.
The 2010 Sovereign Award Finalists, listed alphabetically in each category, are:
Champion Two-Year-Old Filly:
Delightful Mary
Roxy Gap
Wyomia
Champion Two-Year-Old Male:
Blue Laser
Madman Diaries
Rockin Heat
Champion Three-Year-Old Filly:
Biofuel
Free Fee Lady
Roan Inish
Champion Three-Year-Old Male:
Big Red Mike
Hotep
No Hesitation
Champion Older Female:
Hooh Why
Impossible Time
Simply Splendid
Champion Older Male:
Sand Cove
Southdale
Stunning Stag
Champion Turf Female:
Mekong Melody (IRE)
Miss Keller (IRE)
Perfect Shirl
Champion Turf Male:
Grand Adventure
Rahy’s Attorney
Windward Islands
Champion Female Sprinter:
Hooh Why
Indian Apple Is
Sugar Again
Champion Male Sprinter:
Essence Hit Man
Hollywood Hit
Smokey Fire
Outstanding Broodmare:
Destroy
Enchanted Spell
Eye of the Sphynx
Outstanding Breeder:
Adena Springs
Eugene Melnyk
Sam-Son Farm
Outstanding Owner:
Bear Stables Ltd.
Melnyk Racing Stables Inc.
Sam-Son Farms
Outstanding Trainer:
Roger Attfield
Reade Baker
Mark Casse
Outstanding Apprentice Jockey:
Brian Cheyne
Omar Moreno
Ryan Pacheco
Outstanding Jockey:
Eurico Rosa Da Silva
Patrick Husbands
Chantal Sutherland
Media Award Categories:
Outstanding Newspaper Story:
Perry Lefko, Memories of the King of Claiming, Down The Stretch Newspaper, December 17, 2010 Jennifer Morrison, Da Silva will have crowd on his side at Prince of Wales, Toronto Star, July 23, 2010 Beverley Smith, Silky Smooth, Not Without the Colour Man, The Globe and Mail, August 17, 2010
Outstanding Feature Story:
Perry Lefko, Horse Hugs, Down The Stretch Newspaper, December 17, 2010 Keith McCalmont, Julia Brino: I’m coming back to ride, Down The Stretch Newspaper, January 2010 Jennifer Morrison, Mission Accomplished, The Blood Horse, January 6, 2010
Outstanding Photograph:
Terence Dulay, Hang on Big Red Mike, Canadian Thoroughbred, August/September 2010 Tod Marks, Miss Keller and her Bunny Canadian Thoroughbred, December 2010 Cindy Pierson Dulay, Catching Seeking The Title Canadian Thoroughbred, August/September 2010
Outstanding Film/Video/Broadcast:
CBC Television Network Sports, 2010 Queen’s Plate, CBC Sports, July 4, 2010 ESPN Inc., 2010 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, ESPN2, October 16, 2010 Horse Racing Alberta and Whiteiron Productions, 81st Anniversary of the Canadian Derby, TSN, August 21, 2010
The Jockey Club of Canada was founded in 1973 by E.P. Taylor to serve as the international representative of the Canadian Thoroughbred industry and to promote improvements to Thoroughbred racing and breeding, both in Canada and internationally. The Jockey Club of Canada also operates as a field office of The Jockey Club (New York); organizes the Sovereign Awards; administers the Canadian Graded Stakes program; liaises with foreign Jockey Clubs; promotes Thoroughbred ownership; and represents Canada at international racing conferences.
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