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The ratings for the horses also help establish two other awards: the aforementioned Longines World's Best Horse Race and the Longines World's Best Jockey. The Longines World's Best Horse Race award recognizes the best-rated race of the highest-rated Group 1 international races as established by a panel of international handicappers.
The 2021 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2021 edition of the World's Best Racehorse Rankings. [1] It was an assessment of Thoroughbred racehorses issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on 25 January 2022. [2] It included horses aged three or older which competed in flat races ...
The age of the horse at the time it achieved its rating. The racing ages of all horses foaled in a particular part of the world increase simultaneously, regardless of the actual date of foaling. [4] Dates of age increase by location foaled: Northern Hemisphere 1 January South America 1 July Australia, New Zealand and South Africa 1 August
Sea Bird: second highest Timeform rated horse (rated 145) Sea the Stars: first horse ever to win the 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby, and Arc de Triomphe in the same year (2009) Seabiscuit: beat War Admiral in a nationally broadcast 1938 match race; like Phar Lap, raced during the Depression; Sunday Silence Seattle Slew: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1977)
Although he never won (or even contested) a Group One race that season, his two wins were impressive enough to make him one of the highest-rated horses in the world. [2] He later became a successful breeding stallion, siring the multiple Group One winner Snow Fairy and the leading miler Red Evie. [3]
Bosra Sham was named the best filly of her generation at three [34] and was the highest-rated horse in Europe and North America over a mile and a quarter in the 1996 International Classification. She was also the top-rated older filly or mare in Europe at four, when she was given a peak rating of 133 in June 1997. [35] She was rated at 132 by ...
World's Best Racehorse (2014) Just A Way (Japanese ジャスタウェイ, foaled 8 March 2009) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse . After showing useful, but unexceptional form in his early career he emerged as a major talent with a win in the 2013 Autumn edition of the Tenno Sho .
Rakti began 2005 with a win in the Group One Lockinge Stakes at Newbury taking the lead after a furlong and pulling away to win by five lengths in a race record time of 1:33.59. [15] Philip Robinson paid tribute to the horse describing him as "the best horse I’ve sat on – and I’ve been on some good ones".