ROA Awards 2025
Thursday 4 December 2025
Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London W2 2TY
Celebrate with us in style!
The ROA Horseracing Awards returns for its 43rd year, celebrating the stand-out performers of the 2024/25 National Hunt season and the current Flat campaign.
Taking place on Thursday, 4 December, the star-studded event will once again be held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.
The glittering evening starts with a drinks reception, followed by a three-course dinner with wine, before the Awards ceremony itself. The event will finish with dancing to the ever-popular Chance Band. It promises to be another wonderful evening celebrating the best of British racing.
Last year, Bluestocking scooped the Horse of the Year award for the Juddmonte team after a fine season which was capped with victory in the Arc, whilst JP McManus landed his first Owner of the Year title.
With some fantastic performances at Cheltenham and Aintree, and standout triumphs on the Flat from Ombudsman, Delacroix and Field Of Gold, it is sure to be a close contest for the top awards again this year. Voting will commence at the beginning of November for all members of the ROA.
Ticket prices are frozen at last year's rates:
- Individual tickets: £250+VAT (£300 gross)
- Tables of Ten: £2,500+VAT (£3,000 gross)
Menu
Starters
Twice Baked Cheese Soufflé (V)
Baby spinach, gruyere cheese sauce and vegetable crisps
Vegan Mozzarella and Pesto Arancini (VG, GF)
Sumac, piquillo peppers, smoked aubergine charred baby aubergine, romesco puree
Main Courses
Slow Braised Beef “Bourguignon”
Creamed potato, charred button onions and pancetta lardonsForest mushrooms and glazed carrots
Baked Watermelon (VG, GF)
Corn, sweet potato and pepper mojo, smokey salsa macha
Desserts
Mascarpone Whipped Panna Cotta
Pear compote, honeycomb, cinnamon shortbread
Mango and Coconut Delice (VG, GF)
Lime sponge, coconut crème patisserie, mango confit
Please advise us of any dietary requirements at least 48 hours before the event on [email protected]
Sponsorship opportunities
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For more information please contact Louise Norman on [email protected]
Racehorse Owners Association annual Horseracing for 2024 awards we held at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel, with outstanding mare Bluestocking crowned Horse of the Year.
Bluestocking,who is owned by Juddmonte and is British trained by Ralph Beckett, earned the most votes to win the final prestigious award. Across 2024, where she ran every month from May to October, Bluestocking won four times including three Group 1 races. Her season and racing career concluded with a fairytale win in the Group 1 Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October providing trainer Ralph Beckett and jockey Rossa Ryan with ‘a day we will never forget’. Earlier in the evening Bluestocking also won the Owner Breeder Outstanding Filly or Mare award.
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JP McManus claims Owner of the Year title
Mr John P (JP) McManus on the ROA Owner of the Year award for the first time. I Am Maximus storming to victory in the Grand National, and two-mile chaser Jonbon double of Grade 1 wins in the spring were some highlights of Mr McManus’s racing year, which saw him crowned champion jumps owner in Britain for the eighth successive season. JP McManus also won the ARC National Hunt Special Achievement Award with I Am Maximus.
The celebration of another incredible year on the racecourse was attended by owners, trainers and representatives from the industry from both mainland Britain and Ireland, with all the award winners decided by the votes from ROA and Racegoers Club members.
The sixteen categories were sponsored by The Large Independent Racecourses, The Jockey Club, Arena Racing Company, Venatour, The British EBF, The Tote, Fitzdares and Owner Breeder Magazine.
Head Lad and owner receives the British EBF Special Achievement Award
Head Lad to trainer Dylan Cunha, Amedeo Dal Pos was awarded the British EBF Flat Special Achievement award. Amedeo is the owner of Prague who he bought from the horses in training sale last year for 10,000 guineas. The son of Galileo won on his first time out in June and continued his trajectory with a second in the Group 3 Mile stakes at Haydock and a win in the Group 2 Joel Stakes at Newmarket in September. Originally from Italy, Amedeo looks after and rides Prague, and following the Newmarket success he was subsequently supplemented for the Group1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on British Champions Day.
ROA President Charlie Parker said “Tonight’s awards are a chance for us to recognise and celebrate some of the outstanding performances made by our wonderful horses across this year. On behalf of everyone at The ROA I would like to congratulate all the owners who have won this evening. These historic awards are now in their fifth decade and continue to hold a special place in the hearts of British Racing and it is wonderful to see the range of ownership entities and people that have been represented on the winner’s podium”.
The full list of award winners are as follows:
|
Tote Outstanding Novice Hurdler |
BALLYBURN |
R.A. Bartlett and David Manasseh |
|---|---|---|
|
Tote Outstanding Hurdler |
STATE MAN |
Mrs J Donnelly |
|
Fitzdares Outstanding Novice Chaser |
GREY DAWNING |
Robert Kirkland |
|
Jockey Club Racecourses Outstanding Chaser |
GALOPIN DES CHAMP |
Mrs Audrey Turley |
|
Venatour National Hunt Mare |
LOSSIEMOUTH |
Mrs Susannah Ricci |
|
ARC National Hunt Special Achievement |
I AM MAXIMUS |
Mr John P McManus |
|
ARC |
THE CRAFTYMASTER |
S Barton, T Stamp, R Miles and Partner |
|
ARC Outstanding Juvenile |
LAKE VICTORIA |
Mr Michael Tabor, Mr Derrick Smith and Mrs J Magnier |
|
Large Independent Racecourses Outstanding Sprinter |
BRADSELL |
Victorious Racing |
|
Large Independent Racecourses Outstanding Miler |
CHARYN |
Nurlan Bizakov |
|
Large Independent Racecourses Outstanding Middle Distance Horse |
CITY OF TROY |
Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith |
|
Owner Breeder Outstanding Filly or Mare |
BLUESTOCKING |
Juddmonte |
|
Large Independent Racecourses Outstanding Stayer |
KYPRIOS |
Moyglare Stud, Magnier, |
|
British EBF Flat Special Achievement |
PRAGUE |
Amedeo Dal Pos |
|
ROA Owner of the Year |
|
Mr John P McManus |
|
ROA Horse of the Year |
BLUESTOCKING |
Juddmonte |
Nominations will be announced shortly.
Voting will begin on Monday, 3 November and close on Friday 14 November.