THE Niarchos Family, racing under the Flaxman Holdings name, has won the fourth annual John Deere Award as outstanding breeders of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series and the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

The award winner is the breeder who received the highest number of points based upon graded/group first-place finishes in the 71 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races and the 13 Breeders’ Cup races held this year.