As from this season, the Malta Racing Club has launched the Driver of the Month award, which is aimed at giving recognition to the driver who would have most distinguished himself for some worthy reason during that particular month.  The Malta Racing Club extends its thanks to Top Horse for kindly supporting Maltese horse-racing by sponsoring this award.
 
The first edition of this award, i.e. that of January, was won by 24 year old driver Shaun Portelli, whose three wins (on True Q, Morgan Kane and Newmarket Boy) during the fourth seasonal meeting landed him the award.  The Malta Racing Club congratulates Shaun and encourages all drivers to do their best to land this award in future.