Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Classic winner Ace Impact has been named Cartier Horse of the Year at the 33rd Cartier Racing Awards ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.

Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget for Gousserie Racing and Serge Stempniak, the son of the 2017 Cartier Three-Year Old Colt Cracksman becomes the first French-trained winner of the prestigious award since Treve in 2013

Unbeaten in six career starts, Ace Impact unleashed a scintillating turn of foot to take the Prix du Jockey Club and again showed exceptional acceleration when beating a top-quality field in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Ace Impact secured the premier equine award ahead of Paddington, a four-time Group One winner in 2023, dual Derby and Irish Champion Stakes victor Auguste Rodin and Mostahdaf, who captured the Prince Of Wales's Stakes and Juddmonte International.

Ace Impact also receives the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt Award, a category in which Paddington, Auguste Rodin and the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. winner Big Rock (Ire) were also shortlisted.