(Photo courtesy of Wayne Nagai/Emerald Downs) From the WTOBA press release: "In a highly contested "race", the nearly perfect Noosa Beach was named Washington Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male runner. The 2010 Longacres Mile (G3) winner faced his stiffest competition for the title from R.E.V, Racing’s Atta Boy Roy, who won the Churchill Downs Stakes (G2), on Kentucky Derby Day, from his midwest base last year."