The 1400m of the Proisir was always likely to be too pointy for the big boy but El Vencedor poked his head through a gap at the 250m and for a few seconds looked the winner until he was swamped in a wild finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was super because we knew the 1400m was going to be short of his best so we are stoked and can\u2019t wait for the next two legs,\u201d said Marsh.<\/p>\n
El Vencedor will be far better suited by the 1600m second Group 1 of the season, the Howden Mile at Te Rapa in three weeks, and even more so the Livamol Classic back at Ellerslie on October 18.<\/p>\n
The big EV was one of many dominant winners of the equine awards last night.<\/p>\n
La Dorada easily defeated stablemate Return To Conquer for two-year-old of the year while Savaglee was a clear cut winner in the red hot three-year-old division, securing 37 votes while the next best was Leica Lucy with 10.<\/p>\n
Grail Seeker\u2019s two Group 1s last year won her the Sprinter-Miler award 34-12 over Alabama Lass as her closest challenger while NZ Derby winner Willydoit beat out the older horses for Stayer of the Year.<\/p>\n
West Coast was the most clear-cut winner of the night, securing 56 of the 59 votes cast for Jumper of the Year.<\/p>\n
One of the closest votes was for Trainer of the Year in which Sam Bergerson and Mark Walker claimed the title again 30-25 over Marsh.<\/p>\n
Craig Grylls clearly won Jockey of the Year to add to his premiership title while Shaun Fannin bolted away with Jumps Jockey of the Year.<\/p>\n
A mammoth season for Cambridge Stud owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay saw them win Owners of the Year.<\/p>\n
Two of the most important awards of the night went to two horse people who have had very different but equally important impacts on the New Zealand racing industry.<\/p>\n
Ross Coles won the coveted Outstanding Contribution to Racing award after 60 years as a Clerk of the Course at northern racing meetings, during which he earned the respect of all in the industry.<\/p>\n
And the International Achievement Award went to former New Zealand-based trainer Sheila Laxon, who trained her second Melbourne Cup winner with Knight\u2019s Choice at Flemington last November.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1400m of the Proisir was always likely to be too pointy for the big boy but El…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1841,20267,5349,28030,15199,40112,57968,25080,436,11830,13673,13513,16921,16922,57969,4995,6903,20474,3004,101,1777,57967,56,54,55,53475,22582,3674,1942],"class_list":["post-121594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-at","tag-awards","tag-back","tag-big","tag-confidence","tag-connections","tag-easy","tag-ev","tag-for","tag-forward","tag-horse","tag-look","tag-mick","tag-monday","tag-newlycrowned","tag-of","tag-on","tag-pride","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-too","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vencedor","tag-weekend","tag-with","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}