{"id":32046,"date":"2025-01-22T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=32046"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:20:33","slug":"city-of-troy-longines-worlds-best-racehorse-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/city-of-troy-longines-worlds-best-racehorse-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Troy Crowned 2024 Joint World’s Best Racehorse At Longines Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Of Troy might not be racing anymore, but last year’s Epsom Derby winner is still picking up awards – after being crowed the Longines 2024 world’s best racehorse with Dubai World Cup hero Laurel River.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2024 World’s Best Racehorse Shared Between City Of Troy and Laurel River<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore, who rode City Of Troy in all his eight career races, were at the Savoy on Tuesday night to collect the Longines World’s Best Racehorse award <\/strong>for their four-time Group One winner.<\/p>\n

Having been given a world ranking of 128, this was enough for City Of Troy to take the prize, despite his last run before retiring being a disappointing eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.<\/p>\n

City Of Troy still landed four Group Ones in his career, including the Epsom Derby, Coral-Eclipse and Juddmonte International Stakes last season. While in total he banked his Coolmore owners \u00a32,438,732.<\/p>\n

He was also sent of favourite with the best horse racing betting sites in the UK<\/a> for seven of his eight races.<\/p>\n

The only race he wasn’t market leader in was his last, the Breeders’ Cup Classic.<\/p>\n

Aidan O’Brien said after picking up the award<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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“He was always an incredible horse from day one. He came from Coolmore rated an eight, and they are very few and far between. All the foals and yearlings as they go along are rated out of ten. And an eight is nearly as high as any horse ever rated.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Usually that\u2019s a disadvantage because if you\u2019re focused on a horse that much they do feel the heat and they do crumble, but he was one of the unusual horses who kept taking it. He was given every question and test, but he kept passing it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“We always thought the world of him,” added O\u2019Brien. “The whole thing went out of the window at Epsom and it was very hard to get him back from that.<\/em><\/p>\n

“He went to the Derby without a trial and he\u2019d never run over a mile. Everything was new to him but Ryan [Moore] was very patient and gave him a brilliant ride.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The City Of Troy Epsom Derby also provided Aidan O’Brien with his tenth success in this English Classic.<\/p>\n