From a breeding and bloodstock perspective, the most significant achievement is Snitzel's fourth consecutive Champion Australian Sire title, becoming the first to do that since his own grandsire Danehill (USA), 15 years ago.

In a racing context, Chris Waller will celebrate a second straight National Trainers' Premiership, while William Pike set a new Australian record in the jockeys ranks. In terms of champion horses, Nature Strip (Nicconi) looks set to claim the title of Australian Racehorse of the Year after winning three Group 1s, more than any other horse, and one of eight to win more than one race at the elite level.

We have taken a deeper dive into the champions of 2019/20 to see how they have made the season their own .

Champion Sire

Snitzel's fourth straight title was never a fait accompli, but through a weight of quality winners, he was able to secure success in what was the most competitive sires' race in many seasons.

After a solid spring from his progeny, the Arrowfield stallion sat 12th on the Sires Table after the first four months of the season, with a small mountain to climb to defend his title. A month later, at the start of January, he was seventh, but still $2.7 million behind the leader Pierro.

Away Game's victory in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic gave him the momentum to bridge the gap, and by the start of February, Snitzel was into third, less than $500,000 behind new leader I Am Invincible.

By the start of March, he was in second, closing within $300,000 of his great rival Vinnie, and while Pierro jumped back in front later that month thanks to Regal Power's win in the All-Star Mile, Snitzel seemed well poised in third, just over $400,000 adrift. He had assumed the lead by the start of May and by the start of June looked home and hosed with an advantage of over $1 million.

He will end up winning the title by over $2 million, with his progeny earning $17.8 million across the season. That's not quite the record $29 million of two seasons ago, nor the $24 million of last season, but both those numbers were heavily influenced by Redzel's two wins in The Everest.

He had one Group 1 winner for the season, I Am Excited, in The Galaxy, one of his 18 stakes winners for the campaign, a category which he also led the country in, with Exceed And Excel (14) in second.

Six of his 18 stakes winners this season are homebreds: his 14th Group 1 winner I Am Excited for Bell River Thoroughbreds, Splintex for Geoff & Mary Grimish, Exhilarates for Godolphin, Macroura for Aquis Farm, Sure Knee for Ingham Racing and Sylvia's Mother for Rob & Pam Crosby.

Snitzel's other 12 stakes winners were sold as yearlings for prices ranging from $1.05 million (for Akari) to $90,000 (for Irithea), both those sales achieved by Arrowfield. Five were sold at Inglis Easter, and seven found buyers at the Magic Millions Gold Coast or National Sales.

The most successful trainers of Snitzel's progeny this season are Ciaron Maher & David Eustace, thanks to five stakes wins by juvenile fillies Away Game and Macroura; and Peter & Paul Snowden who prepared the individual stakes winners Redzel, Spending To Win, Wayupinthesky and Wild Ruler.

To put Snitzel's quaddie of Champion General Sires' titles into context, he becomes just the sixth sire since 1884 to win four or more straight titles, while he will be crowned Australian leading 2-year-old sire for the third time, the first stallion to do so in at least 20 years.

It can be argued that Snitzel has had a more difficult task to reach four-straight premierships than his illustrious predecessors, as a Danehill grandson meeting a Danehill-saturated broodmare population.

Snitzel also becomes the only three-time winner of the Australian 2YO Sires' Premiership in the past two decades with $4.7 million, 28 winners and four stakes winners. Not A Single Doubt made a race of it with $4.3 million, followed by I Am Invincible ($2.7 million) and Redoute's Choice ($1.4 million), whose dual Group 1-winning son King's Legacy led the legendary sire's best 2-year-old season since 2011/12.

It was also the season where Snitzel marked a rare milestone, a 100th stakes winner overall.

It has been a rich period for elite stallions; a record 11 other stallions have earned $10 million or more during this season, among them former Champion Sires Fastnet Rock (4th) and Exceed And Excel (8th), and Snitzel's barnmates, the recently retired Not A Single Doubt (5th) and Written Tycoon (9th).

Yarraman Park's I Am Invincible will most likely finish second to Snitzel for the third year in a row, although at the time of writing, he only has a small lead over Pierro with one day of the season left remaining. For the second successive season, Vinnie will lead all sires for winners, with 181 at this stage, seven more than Snitzel. He has had 13 stakes winners in total, headlined by his dual Group 1 winner Loving Gaby.

Coolmore's Pierro confirmed his reputation as the heir apparent, with a brilliant season considering he had over 120 runners fewer on the track than both Snitzel and Vinnie.

The irrepressible Fastnet Rock will finish fourth, edging out recently pensioned Arrowfield stallion Not A Single Doubt.

Not A Single Doubt enjoyed a stellar season and was the leading producer of Group 1 winners, with four in all with Farnan, Scales Of Justice, Samadoubt and Shout The Bar.

Champion First-Season Sire

There was no dominant freshman stallion this season, but Coolmore's Pride Of Dubai led for most of the way, consistently producing winners. He ended with one stakes-winner (Tanker), 11 winners in all and progeny earnings of just over $1.3 million.

Late Aquis' stallion Spill The Beans and Vinery's Headwater arguably proved the surprise packets, with 13 Australian winners apiece to lead the first-season sires on winners, with Headwater in particular having a very strong run late in the season.

Assuming they finish on 13 apiece, it will be the lowest leading total by a first-season stallion since 2016/17, when Your Song led that category with 11 winners.

Night Of Thunder (Ire), the son of Dubawi (Ire), finished the season with three individual stakes winners from his one and only Australian crop. To give that achievement some context, only one first-season stallion in the past decade has had more stakes winners.

Champion Second-Season Sire

Coolmore's Rubick had the Champion Second-Season Sire title sewn up pretty much from the moment Yes Yes Yes crossed the line first in The Everest. It was a successful season outside of that rich victory, with 43 winners in total, two at stakes level, but the substantial prizemoney boost carried the son of Encosta De Lago to victory with ease. It also ensured he claimed honours as Australia's leading sire of 3-year-olds.

Newgate's Deep Field broke all manner of records in finishing second, with a new best of 86 winners from a second-season stallion. Yes, he did have big numbers - his 165 starters was 40 more than any other stallion in his class - but his ability to produce winners is really quite special. He had four stakes winners among that collection, highlighted by his top earner Xilong.

Brazen Beau led the second-season stallions in terms of stakes winners, with a total of five, while Better Than Ready, 2018/19's leading first-season sire on winners, added another 64 winners this campaign.

Leading Broodmare Sire

We may have lost Redoute's Choice early last year, but his ongoing legacy is everlasting through his daughters (and sons), who carried him to a second consecutive title as Australia's leading Broodmare Sire. One could also argue he would take the victory of Champion Sire of Sires through the deeds of Snitzel and Not A Single Doubt, if such a title existed.

Redoute's Choice has successfully defended his Champion Broodmare Sire, a mantle acquired from Encosta De Lago in 2019. This season, they battled it out neck and neck again before Redoute's Choice drew away, with his daughters' progeny earnings totalling just short of $27.5 million.

There were 20 stakes winners with the great Redoute's as their maternal grandsire, including four Group 1 winners, Super Seth, Flit, Regal Power and Trekking.

Champion Trainer

Chris Waller's second straight Australian title was not as straight forward as his success 12 months ago where his margin of victory was 73 wins.

This season, the emerging force of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, bolstered by their burgeoning Sydney operation run by Annabel Neasham, has provided stubborn opposition. As of the time of writing, Team CMR are still within eight of Waller's total of 278.5, despite having nearly 800 fewer runners across the season.

Nevertheless, Waller's 2019/20 season achievement can not be underestimated when you consider that it is the first in the post Winx-era, and his runners have earned more prizemoney this season ($44 million) than ever before. A measure of his dominance is the fact that when it comes to metropolitan winners, he has had 100 more than any other trainer in Australia.

He will claim his 10th Sydney Trainers' premiership, an amazing achievement considering the competition he has, while Kris Lees will be New South Wales' leading trainer yet again.

The Melbourne Trainers' Premiership was won by David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig in what was David Hayes' final season in Australia, while the Victorian premiership was taken out by Maher and Eustace.

Tony Gollan claimed the state and metropolitan trainers' premierships in Queensland/Brisbane, while Tony and Calvin McEvoy did the same double in South Australia/Adelaide as did Grant and Alana Williams in Western Australia/Perth. Scott Brunton won the leading trainer title again in Tasmania.

Champion Jockey

William Pike broke his own record for winners yet again this season in taking out the Australian Jockeys' Premiership with 239.

Pike's strike rate of 28.1 per cent almost beggars belief and 2019/20 was also his most successful in terms of prizemoney, with $11.5 million, thanks largely to Regal Power, who won both the G1 Railway S. and the All-Star Mile for him.

All but two of those winners came in Western Australia, and he has ridden nearly 100 winners more than his nearest rival, Jye McNeil, who will be crowned Victoria's leading jockey for the season.

Craig Williams claimed his eighth Melbourne jockeys' premiership, while the honours in Sydney went to James McDonald, who became the first jockey to ride 100 metropolitan winners in a season since Darren Beadman. Andrew Gibbons, with 124 winners, is set to be crowned New South Wales' leading jockey.

Apprentice Baylee Nothdurft will win both the Brisbane and Queensland jockeys titles, while in South Australia, Todd Pannell will claim the state/metro double. Craig Newitt, who recently relocated the Victoria, will be Tasmania's leading jockey.

Champion Horse

The Chris Waller-trained Nature Strip is the only three-time Group 1 winner of the season and should be crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year when that award is handed out based on those successes.

He won the G1 Moir S. the G1 VRC Sprint Classic and the G1 TJ Smith S.

Other multiple Group 1 winners were Bivouac (Exceed And Excel), Con Te Partiro (USA) (Scat Daddy {USA}), Fierce Impact (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible), Shadow Hero (Pierro), King's Legacy (Redoute's Choice) and Addeybb (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}).

The leading earner on Australian racetracks was Yes Yes Yes, with $6.3 million, ahead of G1 Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare (Declaration Of War {USA}) with $5.5 million and Kolding (NZ) (Ocean Park {NZ}) with $4.9 million.

Northern Territory-based Golden Dice (Golden Archer) claims the honour of the most wins of any Australian horse in 2019/20, with nine in total.