Public voting for 2024 Cartier Awards is open

The public vote for the 2024 Cartier Racing Awards is open, with horseracing fans invited to have their say before the deadline on Tuesday, November 12 at noon.

Members of the public can vote in eight categories from a shortlist of ten horses in each, with all participants entered into a draw to win a special prize from Cartier.

Votes make up 35 per cent of the final outcome and are combined with points earned in Pattern races and the opinions of a panel of racing journalists and handicappers.

• 2024 Cartier Awards: place your vote here

Geldings are eligible for the two age-specific colt categories to ensure Europe's best horses are recognised, while they are also eligible for the Cartier Horse of the Year, Older Horse, Sprinter and Stayer categories.

The 34th Cartier Awards will take place at the Dorchester Hotel in London on the evening of Wednesday, November 20.

Funeral date for long-standing stud manager Keith Williams announced

Keith Williams, stud manager at Bishops Down Stud Farm, died at his home on Saturday, October 19. For 40 years Williams was manager at the Southampton stud, breeders of Lockinge Stakes winner Fly To The Stars, and was previously based at Littleton Stud in Winchester. 

The family wish to inform all those in his beloved racing world of his death and welcome attendees at his funeral, which will take place at 3pm on November 12 at the Wessex Vale Crematorium at Hedge End in Southampton.

Funeral of Group 1-winning trainer Steve Norton to take place on November 11

The funeral of Group 1-winning trainer Steve Norton, who died last month at the age of 87, will be at 1.30pm on Monday November 11 at St Mary's Presbytery, Cross Bank Road, Batley WF17 8PQ.

South Yorkshire-based Norton scored Britain's first success in the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp with Goodbye Shelley in 1982 and also had a winner at the Cheltenham Festival during three decades as a trainer.

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