Star West Australian bred, sold, owned and trained galloper Scenic Blast was tonight officially crowned as Australia's champion of last season.

The outstanding sprinter was the big winner at the Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards at Melbourne's Crown Palladium.

As well as winning Australian racing's biggest and most prestigious crown, he won two other major awards at the function.

He was a runaway winner of the Champion Sprinter award and also judged as the best International Performer trained from Australia for the 2008/09 season.

In the major award of the night, Scenic Blast gained over 55 per cent of the overall votes. Six individual horses received votes from the expert judging panel.

His 38 votes was 23 more than his nearest rival, fellow Magic Millions graduate Theseo.

Scenic Blast, an $85,000 purchase by trainer Danny Morton at the 2006 Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Perth, capped an outstanding season when he travelled to England and thumped his rivals in the Group One King's Stand Stakes.

Earlier on in the season he captured Australia's two feature sprint events - the Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap - both run at Flemington in Melbourne.

At the same venue earlier this month Scenic Blast walked away with the Victorian Racehorse of the Year Award.

Scenic Blast's three wins capped a memorable night for Magic Millions graduates.

Phelan Ready, who won Australia's two premier juvenile races, scored 60 of the 69 votes to be crowned Australia's Champion Two-Year-Old.

The $150,000 Gold Coast purchase was a popular winner of the award following his memorable Magic Millions 2YO Classic/Golden Slipper Stakes double.

Earlier this month Phelan Ready was crowned as Queensland's Horse of the Year.

The recently crowned New South Wales Horse of the Year Theseo was crowned as the country's Middle Distance Champion - one of the most hotly contested awards each season.

Theseo beat out Maldivian for the Middle Distance crown with 40 votes - 20 more than the Cox Plate winner.

His trainer Gai Waterhouse and regular rider Nash Rawiller won the respective Champion Group One Trainer and Jockey awards.

The winners of tonight's Horse of the Year awards at the Palladium were as follows:

Champion Group 1 Jockey - Nash Rawiller

Champion Group 1 Trainer - Gai Waterhouse

Champion Sire - Encosta de Lago

Champion Jumper - Pentiffic

Champion Australian-Bred International - Sacred Kingdom

Champion Australia-Trained International - Scenic Blast

Champion Two-Year-Old - Phelan Ready

Champion Three-Year-Old Filly - Samantha Miss

Champion Three-Year-Old Colt & Gelding - Whobegotyou

Champion Sprinter - Scenic Blast

Middle Distance Champion - Theseo

Champion Stayer - Viewed

Australian Racehorse of the Year - Scenic Blast