ROA Awards 2025

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19:00PM 04 DECEMBER 2025 - 01:00AM 05 DECEMBER 2025

Overview

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)
     

Sponsorship opportunities

Sponsoring the ROA Horseracing Awards offers a unique opportunity to place your brand at the forefront of the horseracing community. With our flexible sponsorship packages, you can choose an option that best fits your marketing goals and budget. As a sponsor, your brand will receive significant exposure before, during, and after the event, ensuring maximum visibility to a targeted audience of owners, trainer,  industry leaders, enthusiasts, and key stakeholders.

  • Benefits of Sponsorship: Brand Visibility: Your logo and brand will be prominently displayed throughout the event, including on all marketing materials, the ROA website, and our social media channels.
  • Customised Packages: We offer a variety of sponsorship packages that can be tailored to meet your specific needs and objectives.
  • Exclusive Networking: Connect with the best of British Racing enhancing your brand's presence and reputation.

For more information please contact Bobby Burns at [email protected]

A taste of 2024

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.


NEW! A TASTE OF THE ROA AWARDS!

If you would like to download a picture from the evening they are free of charge - all you need to do is enter your email address and the passcode: 7567

FULL AWARDS GALLERY

 

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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
Outstanding All-Weather Horse

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,
Tabor, Smith and Westerberg

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

Nominations will be announced shortly.

Voting will begin on Monday, 3 November and close on Friday 14 November.