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Oju Chosan: Steeplechase race horse who won numerous JG1 races, most notably winning the Nakayama Grand Jump five times in a row. Orb: 2013 Kentucky Derby winner; Orfevre: winner of almost 20 million US dollars in earnings and is one of the highest earning racehorses ever; Overdose: champion Hungarian sprinter and winner of 14 straight races.
Jumpers tend to be older than their flat racing counterparts [6] and can have much longer careers, making it possible to earn a large number of wins. For example, champion hurdler Hurricane Fly won a then-record 22 Grade One races over his ten-year career. [7] Most race horses and race winners are male horses (either intact males or geldings).
Sunline (29 September 1995 – 1 May 2009) was a champion New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning race mare of her time. She won 32 of her 48 races with earnings of NZ$14,200,000. She was named the New Zealand Horse of the Year four times and Australian Horse of the Year three times.
In 1999, ESPN listed him 35th of the 100 greatest North American athletes of the 20th century, the highest of three non-humans on the list (the other two were also racehorses: Man o' War at 84th and Citation at 97th). [145] Secretariat ranked second behind Man o' War in The Blood-Horse's List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.
They show that in his 24 years of racing, he won 1,462 of his 4,257 four-horse races as member of a team, and was placed in 1,438 more (mostly in second place). He broke several records. He won the most prestigious race, held immediately after the ceremonial opening procession (Pompa circensis), 110 times. He won 815 times by leading from the ...
Funny Cide had the highest earnings of any New York-bred racehorse in history. Saratoga Race Course honored him with a stakes race for older New York-breds, the Funny Cide Stakes. In April 2010, the New York Thoroughbred Breeders voted Funny Cide the New York-bred Horse of the Decade. [49]
In 2016, 209 race horses died in California. It raises the question: Has horse racing plateaued in its effort to make the sport safer? One fact you can’t escape is that horses will die in racing ...
John Henry, in the view of many followers of thoroughbred racing, was one of the best come-from-behind horses (or "closers") in recent history. In The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century , he was ranked #23.