Hellova seals Brunton’s success

TRAINER Scott Brunton has continued his domination of Tasmanian thoroughbred racing with Hellova Street winning the Magic Millions Tasmanian Horse of the Year award.

The Brunton-trained sixyear-old sprinter won the Thomas Lyons Stakes, the Mowbray Stakes and the VRC March Stakes at Flemington.

The prestigious prize was announced at the Tasmanian Thoroughbred Awards dinner at Country Club Tasmania in Launceston.

In other awards, Pateena Arena (three wins from five starts) was named the twoyear-old Horse of the Year and Hot Dipped (eight wins from 13 starts) won the three-yearold Horse of the Year prize.

Paul and Elizabeth Geard won the leading owner award for the seventh consecutive year.

Jockey David Pires won his third Tasracing Leading Jockey Award with 80 wins, while Raquel Clark won her second leading apprentice award with 31 wins.

Irish-born apprentice Chris Graham won the Tasmanian Jockeys’ Association Dux of the Apprentice School for 2016-17.

Scott Brunton was the leading trainer (96 winners) for the fourth year in a row.

Wordsmith was named the leading Tasmanian-based Juvenile Stallion for the fourth connective season, and was also named the leading Tasmanian-based Sire.

The Broodmare of the Year was Palatine Hill, mother of dual Group 1 winner Palentino, and Hot Dipped won the leading race filly or Mare award.