The ‘2024 Annual Representative Award Ceremony’, which concludes the year of 2024 in Korean horse racing and selects the protagonist who showed the best performance, was held at Let’s Run Park Seoul on the 19th. At the Annual Representative Award ceremony, the ‘Representative Horse of the Year’ and ‘Best Domestic Horse’ racehorse categories are selected by combining Seoul and Bukyung, and the ‘Best Trainer’, ‘Best Jockey’, and ‘Best Management Team’ are awarded to officials active in Seoul. ‘ and ‘Fair Play Award’ categories were awarded respectively.
■ Won two awards as the representative horse of the year and the best domestic horse, proving that it is a ‘global hit’ and the undisputed champion of Korean horse racing.
The year 2024 was a ‘global hit’ for Korean horse racing. Global Heat was named as the best domestic racehorse in Seoul and Bukyung combined and the annual representative horse representing Korean horse racing in 2024. ‘Global Hit’, which had unfortunately placed second in the ‘President’s Cup’ and ‘Grand Prix’ last year, handing over the position of the year’s representative horse to ‘Winner’s Man’, proudly took the throne this year.
‘Global Heat’, who was selected as the best domestic 3-year-old horse by winning the ‘Korean Derby’, the glorious stage for 3-year-old horses last year, won the ‘Stayer Series’ this year, and also won both the ‘President’s Cup’ and the ‘Grand Prix’, making the history of domestic horses. I am writing a new one.
■ Crown Prince Moon Se-young, who has won the most difficult jockey award for the ninth time, has a record of 2,000 wins -30
Crown Prince Moon Se-young was named in the best jockey category in Seoul, showing the best performance this year. In his 24th year since his debut, jockey Moon Se-young, who is considered the top jockey in Korea in name and reality, had the honor of being selected as the best jockey for the 9th time in his career. Jockey Moon Se-young, who had the most wins this year across Seoul and Bukyung, showed an overwhelming win rate of 25%. Jockey Moon Se-young, who won five grand prize races this year alone, is only 30 wins away from achieving a record of 2,000 wins.
■ Assistant teacher Seo In-seok, who participated in over 500 matches this year and won 55 times, was selected as the best assistant teacher in Seoul.
Trainer Seo In-seok of Group 33, who produced ‘Eunpa Sarang’, the hero of the surprise who won the ‘Korean Derby’ trophy, the best grand prize race in the first half of the year, was selected as the best trainer at this year’s Seoul Horse Racing. Trainer Seo In-seok, who showed passion and sincerity by participating in over 500 matches this year alone, won 55 matches and earned the most prize money.
■ Seoul Group 34, which created a safe horse racing environment with a record of multiple wins, was selected as the best management group.
This year, Group 34, led by trainer Ricadi, was selected as Seoul’s ‘Best Management Team’ based on a comprehensive evaluation including excellent racing performance and creation of a safe horse racing environment. Group 34, which manages over 40 racehorses, including the luxury mare ‘Wonderful Slew’, which won the grand prize race twice this year, recorded more than 50 wins and a high winning rate of close to 20% this year.
■ Jockey Jeong-gyun Moon, who realized the spirit of fair play by competing more than 300 times, received the Fair Play Award.
The Fair Play Award is given to the rider with the lowest number of suspension days and fines among the top 20 jockeys in racing performance. This year’s Fair Play Award went to jockey Moon Jeong-gyun, who is on the verge of achieving his 500th career win. Jockey Moon Jeong-gyun practiced the spirit of fair play in every race to the extent that he was not even suspended from riding for a single day even though he participated in 308 races this year, which is 1.5 times the average of jockeys in Seoul.
Chairman Jeong Ki-hwan of the Korean Racing Association, who attended the awards ceremony, looked back on Korean horse racing in 2024, saying, “This year was a year in which horse racing and the horse industry took a big leap forward, including the official launch of online betting tickets, the achievement of racing exports to 24 countries, and the performance of domestic horses in the Korea Cup.” .
Source: www.nextdaily.co.kr
