AT the annual Victorian Racing Awards held on Monday, Joseph O’Brien won the Fred Hoysted Award, which recognises an outstanding training performance on a Victorian racetrack and which was voted on by over 40 media representatives.

It’s the second time the award has gone overseas. As with O’Brien’s effort with Rekindling, Andreas Wohler took the prize in 2015 for the win of Protectionist in the then Emirates Melbourne Cup.