Enable firmly puts herself in Cartier running after shining at Sandown

Enable has entered the running for the Cartier Racing Awards after returning to the racecourse with a smooth success in the Coral-Eclipse under Frankie Dettori.

She now sits on 48 points in the Cartier Older Horse category, 56 points behind regular foe Magical, who she has beaten on her last two outings.

John Gosden's five-year-old has already scooped three Cartier awards during her illustrious career, claiming Horse Of The Year and the Three-Year-Old Filly prize in 2017, as well as the Older Horse accolade last year.

Frankie Dettori is jubilant after winning the Eclipse on EnableCredit: Edward Whitaker

Only three horses have ever won more awards than Enable – Ouija Board and Yeats (both four) and the unbeaten Frankel, also owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah, who picked up five awards.

The Gosden-Dettori combination have also had recent success on the track with Too Darn Hot landing the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Deauville, meaning last season's Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt winner is now tied on 64 points with Anthony Van Dyck for the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt award.

The now-retired Blue Point still leads the way in the Horse Of The Year category on 106 points, only two points above Magical.

The annual Cartier Awards are decided through three established strands.

Points are earned by horses in Pattern races (30 per cent of the total) and these are combined at the end of season with the opinions of a panel of racing journalists/handicappers (35 per cent) and votes from readers of Racing Post and the Daily Telegraph, plus ITV Racing viewers (35 per cent).

The 29th Cartier Racing Awards will be presented at a glittering ceremony before an invited audience of 300 in London on November 12.

Cartier Horse Of The Year standings

Blue Point 106
Magical 104
Hermosa 96
Anthony Van Dyck 64
Crystal Ocean 64
Stradivarius 64
Too Darn Hot 64
Japan 60
Beat The Bank 56
Defoe 56
Persian King 56

Older Horse standings

Magical 104
Crystal Ocean 64
Beat The Bank 56
Defoe 56
Lord Glitters 54
Enable 48

Three-Year-Old Colt standings

Anthony Van Dyck 64
Too Darn Hot 64
Japan 60
Persian King 56
Advertise 48
Magna Grecia 48

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