Baaeed Crowned World’s Top-Rated Turf Horse For 2022

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Flightline has been rated as Frankel's equal in the 2022 Longines World's Best Racehorse rankings on Tuesday with the Breeders' Cup Classic winner handed 140 while the brilliant Baaeed (GB) ended the year as the world's top-rated turf horse and the second-highest-rated horse in the world after achieving 135.
Baaeed, who lost his unbeaten record on his final start in the Champion S. at Ascot, secured his rating of 135 when beating Mishriff (Ire) in the Juddmonte International. No other turf horse has achieved a rating as high since Frankel.
Japanese star Equinox (Jpn) and Australian speedster Nature Strip (Aus), who lit up Royal Ascot when winning the King's Stand S., finished in joint-third with a rating of 126 apiece.
Coral-Eclipse S. winner Vadeni (Fr) also fared well in the overall rankings by finishing alongside Life Is Good in a joint-fifth on 125.
Champion stayer Kyprios (Ire) finished his season rated just 1lb below them on 124, the same mark William Muir and Chris Grassick's battle-hardened globetrotter Pyledriver (GB) managed in a joint-eighth spot. Real World (Ire), Romantic Warrior (Ire), Titleholder (Jpn), Olympiad, Golden Sixty (Aus) and last year's Arc hero Torqator Tasso (Ger) also finished in joint-eighth.
Alpinista (GB), who stole Torquator Tasso's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe crown at the end of a spellbinding campaign that saw her notch three Group 1 wins in 2022 from as many attempts, earned a rating of 123 for that career highlight.
Overall, 288 horses, trained in 16 different countries, were rated 115 or higher. The
full list and further information on the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings are
available on the IFHA website ifhaonline.org.

QIPCO Champion Stakes Named World's Best Turf Race
The QIPCO Champion S. has been ranked the world's highest-rated turf race and the best race in Europe in 2022 in the Longines World's Best Horserace Rankings.
With prize-money of £1.3 million, the Champion S. is also the richest ten-furlong race in Europe and was won last year by the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Bay Bridge (GB) (New Bay {GB}). Overall, the Champion S., rated 124.75, was second in the rankings behind the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, run last year at Keeneland and won by Flightline (Tapit), who was on Tuesday announced as the Longines World's Best Racehorse. His rating of 140 was however achieved from his performance in the TVG Pacific Classic S.
The Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, which has previously been named as the world's top-rated race on five occasions in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021, was third in the 2022 rankings on 124.25.
European races fared well in the rankings overall, with 13 of the top 30 races being staged in Britain, France or Ireland. Britain had the highest number in the top 30 at nine, with the Al Shaqab Lockinge S. and Qatar Sussex S. being ranked fourth and fifth respectively. America and Japan were equal with six apiece in the top 30, while France staged three, Australian and Dubai had two each, and Ireland and Hong Kong held one apiece. Ireland's top-rated race was the Irish Champion S., which was joint-seventh overall with the Queen Anne S.
The list compiled by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) and Longines uses the annual race ratings, the calculations for which are based on the first four finishers in each race. Twelve countries feature among the top 100 races, though a five-way tie for the 100th spot on the means that the list for 2022 consists of 104 races.
Australia was responsible for 20 of the 104 races, followed by Great Britain (18), United States (18), Japan (12), France (10), Hong Kong, China (10), South Africa (5), Ireland (4), United Arab Emirates (4), Canada (1), Germany (1), and Saudi Arabia (1).

 

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