The 2007 Cartier Racing Awards, European horseracing`s equivalent of the Oscars, are announced at the stylish Awards` dinner held in the ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel, Mayfair, London, UK, tomorrow evening (Wednesday, November 14).

The eight horse categories, Horse Of The Year, Top Older Horse, Top Stayer, Top Sprinter, Three-Year-Old Colt, Three-Year-Old Filly, Two-Year-Old Colt and Two-Year-Old Filly, are revealed to an invited international gathering of leading owners, trainers, jockeys, breeders, media and racing personalities, including Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer, joint winners of the thrilling British jockeys` championship which ended in dramatic fashion on Saturday.

The equine awards, which honour the best horses of a tremendous 2007 Flat season, are decided by a well-established method, involving a combination of points achieved in Pattern races, the views of racing journalists on Cartier`s Racing Panel and votes from readers of Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph. The Pattern races count towards 40 per cent of the total for each award, with the Cartier Racing Panel`s deliberations also having a 40 per cent share and the votes of the newspaper readers making up the final 20 per cent.

The 2007 Cartier Racing Panel is made up of chairman Brough Scott (The Sunday Telegraph), Marcus Armytage (The Daily Telegraph), Graham Dench (Racing Post), Chris McGrath (The Independent) and Julian Muscat (The Times).

The nominations for each category this year are as follows:

Cartier Horse of the Year - Authorized, Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Peeping Fawn, Ramonti

Cartier Top Older Horse - Dylan Thomas, Manduro, Notnowcato, Ramonti, Yeats

Cartier Top Stayer - Allegretto, Geordieland, Le Miracle, Macleya, Yeats

Cartier Top Sprinter - Benbaun, Kingsgate Native, Red Clubs, Sakhee`s Secret, Soldiers Tale

Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt - Authorized, Cockney Rebel, Excellent Art, Literato, Soldier Of Fortune

Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly - Darjina, Finsceal Beo, Light Shift, Mrs Lindsay, Peeping Fawn

Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt - Fast Company, Ibn Khaldun, Kingsgate Native, New Approach, Rio De La Plata

Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly - Fleeting Spirit, Listen, Natagora, Saoirse Abu, Zarkava

The Cartier Racing Awards, now in their 17th year, are recognised as the most prestigious within European horseracing.

Last year`s event before an invited audience of nearly 300 saw Cartier Racing Awards won by the very popular Ouija Board, subject of a book this year by her owner the Earl of Derby, Finsceal Beo, who captured two Classics during 2007 and was beaten a head in a third, the great stayer Yeats, unbeaten Teofilo, top filly Mandesha, sprinter Reverence and George Washington, who gained a Cartier Racing Award for the second year running. Finsceal Beo and Yeats both have the chance to claim a second Cartier Racing Award tomorrow night.

In addition to the eight horse awards, the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award Of Merit will be presented to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the special 20-strong Cartier Jury, has/have done most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months.

The list of past winners of the Daily Telegraph Award of Merit is as follows; Peter Willett, Henry Cecil, David & Patricia Thompson, Lord Oaksey, Prince Khalid Abdullah, John Magnier, His Highness the Aga Khan, Peter Walwyn, the Head Family, Sir Peter O`Sullevan, Frankie Dettori, John Dunlop, the Marquess of Hartington, Francois Boutin, Lester Piggott and Henri Chalhoub.

The 2007 Cartier Jury is made up of Michael Bell, Charlie Brooks, Alan Byrne, the Earl of Derby, Mike Dillon, Ed Dunlop, Douglas Erskine-Crum, Rod Fabricius, Philip Freedman, Tom Goff, Lord Grimthorpe, Simon Marsh, Jim McGrath, Sir Peter O`Sullevan, Leo Powell, Ruth Quinn, Sam Sheppard, Brough Scott, Sir David Sieff and Howard Wright.

The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to recognise excellence in the racehorse.

Details of the 2007 Cartier Racing Awards` winners will be made available to the media on an embargoed basis tomorrow morning, Wednesday, November 14. Winners must not be contacted as they do not know they have won.