{"id":17462,"date":"2026-04-24T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/17462\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:22:11","slug":"mansetti-named-canadian-horse-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/17462\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansetti Named Canadian Horse of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al and Bill Ulwelling’s 2025 King’s Plate winner, Mansetti<\/a>\u00a0, was named Canadian Horse of the Year during the 51st Sovereign Awards hosted April 23 by The Jockey Club of Canada. The Kevin Attard trainee was also named champion 3-year-old male.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Jungle Racing-bred son of Collected<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 out of the Sky Mesa mare Gidget Girl\u00a0 notched three wins and two seconds in eight starts, making CA$925,000. Besides the King’s Plate, he won the Woodstock Stakes and Marine Stakes (G3). His placings came when second in the Ontario Derby (G3) and on dirt at Fort Erie<\/a> in the Prince of Wales Stakes, which follows the King’s Plate and is the\u00a0second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. The King’s Plate, contested on Woodbine’s Tapeta surface, is often called the Canadian equivalent of the Kentucky Derby. He did not compete in the third and final race in the Canadian Triple Crown, the 1 1\/2-mile Breeders Stakes on turf.<\/p>\n

Mansetti secured 81 votes, outpacing fellow champions\u00a0Caitlinhergrtness (74) and Corsia Veloce (35)<\/p>\n

READ: Mansetti Delivers King’s Plate for American Owners<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides Horse of the Year, other Canadian championships\u00a0were announced throughout the Thursday evening program, along with media award winners.<\/p>\n

The Sovereign Awards are Canada’s premier horse racing honors, presented annually since 1975 by the Jockey Club of Canada to recognize excellence in Thoroughbred racing and breeding. They celebrate both human and equine achievements, with the most prestigious award being Horse of the Year. Horses do not need to be foaled in Canada to win a Sovereign Award, but to be eligible, a juvenile must race in Canada at least two times, and those aged 3 and up must run at least three times.<\/p>\n

The top three finalists in each category are determined by the online ballots of the Jockey Club of Canada’s knowledgeable voters. The media category award finalists were determined by media professionals within the North American industry.<\/p>\n

Here are the full winners, in order of presentation:<\/p>\n

Outstanding Writing: Natalie Voss<\/p>\n

Outstanding Photograph: Clive Cohen<\/p>\n

Outstanding Audio Visual\/Digital Broadcast: Woodbine Entertainment<\/p>\n

Outstanding Groom: Rose Day<\/p>\n

Outstanding Off-track Worker: Tove Morgan<\/p>\n

Outstanding Off-track Worker: Jodie Hiesinger<\/p>\n

Special Sovereign Award: Doug Anderson<\/p>\n

Champion 2-year Old Female: Corsia Veloce<\/p>\n

Champion 2-year Old Male: Argos<\/p>\n

Champion 3-year Old Female: Winterberry\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Champion 3-year Old Male: Mansetti<\/p>\n

Outstanding Breeder: Chiefswood Stables<\/p>\n

Outstanding Broodmare: Dixie Chicken<\/p>\n

Champion Female Sprinter: Little Teddy<\/p>\n

Champion Male Sprinter: Simcoe<\/p>\n

Outstanding Apprentice Jockey: Pietro Moran<\/p>\n

Outstanding Jockey: Rafael Hernandez<\/p>\n

Champion Female Turf Horse: Ready For Shirl<\/p>\n

Champion Male Turf Horse: Gas Me Up\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outstanding Trainer: Mark Casse<\/p>\n

Champion Older Main Track Male: Desden Row\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outstanding Owner: Chiefswood Stables<\/p>\n

Horse of the Year: Mansetti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al and Bill Ulwelling’s 2025 King’s Plate winner, Mansetti\u00a0, was named Canadian Horse of the Year during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8928,17,8929,8936,8937,4634,1823,8926,8935,8925,8931,8923,8927,8938,8932,8924,8933,4840,4636,4841,8934,1667,8930],"class_list":{"0":"post-17462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-al-and-bill-ulwelling","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chiefswood-stables","11":"tag-clive-cohen","12":"tag-desden-row","13":"tag-doug-anderson","14":"tag-international","15":"tag-jockey-club-of-canada","16":"tag-jodie-hiesinger","17":"tag-kevin-attard","18":"tag-kings-plate","19":"tag-mark-casse","20":"tag-natalie-voss","21":"tag-northeast-region","22":"tag-pietro-moran","23":"tag-rafael-hernandez","24":"tag-rose-day","25":"tag-sovereign-awards","26":"tag-the-jockey-club-of-canada","27":"tag-thoroughbred-racing","28":"tag-tove-morgan","29":"tag-woodbine","30":"tag-woodstock-stakes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}