STALLION AT ATTENTION – Janis Maine’s image of Milwaukee Brew at Adena Springs North is up for a SOVEREIGN AWARD!
BUNNY! by Ericka Rusnak, also up for a Sovereign Award!
SOVEREIGN AWARD NOMINEES!!
Canadian Thoroughbred and Thoroughblog well represented!
Some surprises in the nominations announcement of the SOVEREIGN AWARDS, honouring champions of 2011. The noms were announced about the same time as the OSCARS THIS MORNING!
HOLLYWOOD HIT missed a nomination for champion sprinter and CITY WOLF, a graded stakes winner, is not among the top three noms for older horse, the category that underwent a re-vote.
Lots of very good horses and horsepeople on the lists though, and it should be interesting.
Congratulations to THOROUGHBLOG and CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED contributors JANIS MAINE, ERICKA RUSNAK and DAVE LANDRY hog the noms for BEST PHOTOGRAPH.
Landry is already a Sovereign award winner and these are the first nominations for RUSNAK, a manager at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Aurora, Ontario and horse owner. Rusnak took a picture of BUNNY (Where’s the Ring – She Ain’t Much filly) jumping for joy in the spring.
And JANIS MAINE, also an avid photographer, is up for her first SOVEREIGN with STALLION AT ATTENTION, her image of Milwaukee Brew playing up at the stallion show this past fall at Adena Springs.
Congrats girls!!
Dave Landry’s nominated photo – Filly Wins! – Inglorious in the Plate – it was on the cover of Canadian Thoroughbred
HERE ARE THE NOMS FOR ALL CATEGORIES!!
Champion Two-Year-Old Filly:
Hard Not to Like
Northern Passion
Tu Endie Wei
Champion Two-Year-Old Male:
Excaper
Maritimer
Prospective
Champion Three-Year-Old Filly:
Inglorious
Marketing Mix
Smart Sting
Champion Three-Year-Old Male:
Freedoms Traveller
Moonshine Mullin
Pender Harbour
Champion Older Female:
Ariana D
Embur’s Song
Stars to Shine
Champion Older Male:
Don Cavallo
Fifty Proof
James Street
Champion Turf Female:
Marketing Mix
Miss Keller (IRE)
Never Retreat
Champion Turf Male:
Musketier (GER)
Pender Harbour
Stormy Lord
Champion Female Sprinter:
Atlantic Hurricane
Classic Alley Kat
Embur’s Song
Champion Male Sprinter:
Essence Hit Man
Gypsy Ring
Signature Red
Outstanding Broodmare:
Embur Sunshine
Noble Strike
Rahy’s Hope
The three finalists for Horse of the Year honours will be announced on the evening of the awards ceremony.
Outstanding Breeder:
Adena Springs
Arosa Farms
Gardiner Farms Ltd.
Outstanding Owner: (There was a tie in one of the top three finalists positions)
Bear Stables Ltd.
Donver Stable
Melnyk Racing Stables Inc.
Glen Todd and Patrick Kinsella
Outstanding Trainer:
Roger Attfield
Reade Baker
Mark Casse
Outstanding Apprentice Jockey:
Ryan Pacheco
Betty-Jo Williams
Scott Williams
Outstanding Jockey:
Luis Contreras
Patrick Husbands
Emma-Jayne Wilson
**Media Award Categories:
The judging for the 2011 media categories was performed by the Journalism Professors at Humber, School of Media Studies & Information Technology, in Toronto, Ontario.
Outstanding Newspaper Story:
Allan Besson, Hard work no problem, mon, Published in the Winnipeg Free Press, August 26, 2011
Keith McCalmont, Emma’s great Excaper, Published on Woodbineentertainment.com, November 2, 2011
Beverley Smith, Rahy’s Attorney goes out as a contender, Published in the Globe and Mail and theglobeandmail.com, August 16, 2011
Outstanding Feature Story:
Peter Gross, Fern Chretien’s Stretch Drive, Published in Down the Stretch, April 2011
Jennifer Morrison, Glorification Published in Canadian Thoroughbred, August/September 2011
Beverley Smith, Training Daze and Casse Ready (Two part Series) Published in the Globe and Mail and theglobeandmail.com, September 14 and October 1, 2011
Outstanding Photograph:
David J. Landry, Filly Wins! Oaks and Plate, Published in Canadian Thoroughbred August/September 2011
Janis Maine, Stallion at Attention, Published on canadianthoroughbred.com/thoroughblog, October 23, 2011
Erika Rusnak, Bunny, Published on canadianthoroughbred.com/thoroughblog, May 12, 2011
Outstanding Film/Video/Broadcast:
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, Celebrating Northern Dancer’s 50th Birthday. Broadcast on Score Television Network, September 18, 2011
Horse Racing Alberta & Whiteiron Productions, 2011 Canadian Derby. Broadcast on Canadian Television Network, August 20, 2011
Sport of Kings. Broadcast on Shaw TV, October 7, 2011
