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# Equus Award winners

##### August 2021

RAINBOW BRIDGE

Rainbow Bridge, winner of this year’s Grade 1 Cape Town Met over 2000m at Kenilworth, has been named Equus Horse Of The Year for the 2020/21 season.

17 Aug 2021

The results of the 2021 virtual Equus Awards were revealed on Tuesday evening by Equus hosts, Neil Andrews and Jessica Motaung.

**2021 Equine categories**:

 **Champion Two-year-old Colt (Distance Immaterial)**

- Ambiorix

- Cosmic Highway
- Waterberry Lane

**Winner: Good Traveller**

 **Champion Two-year-old Filly (Distance Immaterial)**

- Desert Miracle

- Sheela
- Under Your Spell

**Winner: Rain in Holland**

**Champion Three-year-old Colt (Distance Immaterial)**

- Kommetdieding
- Linebacker
- Malmoos

**Winner:  Jet Dark**

**Champion Three-year-old Filly (Distance Immaterial)**

- Captains Ransom
- Zarina

**Winner: War of Athena**

 

**Champion Older Male (Distance Immaterial)**

- Got the Greenlight

- Rio Querari

**Winner:  Rainbow Bridge**

 

**Champion Older Filly/Mare (Distance Immaterial)**

- Queen Supreme
- Run Fox Run
- Singforafa

 **Winner: Summer Pudding**

 

**Champion Sprinter (1000-1200 Metres, Age/gender Immaterial)**

- Battle Force

- Kasimir
- Run Fox Run

**Winner: Rio Querari**

 

**Champion Miler (1400-1600 Metres, Age/gender Immaterial)**

- Got the Greenlight

- Rainbow Bridge 

**Winner: Jet Dark**

 

 **Champion Middle Distance 1800-2200 Metres, Age/gender Immaterial)**

- Got the Greenlight

- Jet Dark
- Kommetdieding,

- Linebacker 

- War of Athena

**Winner: Rainbow Bridge**

**Champion Stayer (2400 Metres upwards, Age/gender Immaterial)**

- Atyaab
- Malmoos
- Silver Host

**Winner:  Nebraas**

**2021 Breeder Awards:**

Champion Broodmare:                   **Halfway to Heaven**

Champion Stallion:                **Gimmethegreenlight**

Champion Breeder:               **Klawervlei Stud**

Outstanding Breeder:          **Oldlands Stud**

International Achievement  **Varsfontein Stud for Yulong Prince who won the Grade 1 Cantala Stakes in Australia**

**2021 Media Awards**

Print           **David Thiselton**           Ashwin Reynolds chuffed to be part of South African History Broadcast         **Tawanda Taruvinga** A day in the life:  Justin Snaith

Still Photography  **Candiese Lenferna  ** Springbok and Cell C Sharks Rugby Captain Siya Kolisi meeting  with the Peter Muscutt-trained BlackWhite-Dynamite and getting to know the other sport that the Sharks are invested in, namely, horseracing

         

**2021 Human  Categories**:

Champion Apprentice:                    **Kyle Strydom**    

Champion Jockey:                  **Lyle Hewitson**   

Champion Trainer:                 **Justin Snaith**     

Champion Owner:                 **Suzette Viljoen**

 

**Special Achievement Award:Graeme Hawkins**

 

 

**2021 Horse of the Year:**

**Winner – Rainbow Bridge**

**Special Award to the Groom of the Horse of the year:**

**Winner –  Dumasani Bonani**

 

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