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Bucephalus, favorite horse of Alexander the Great; one of the most famous horses of antiquity; following his death after the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE, Alexander promptly founded the city of Bucephala upon the spot in his memory; Chetak, war horse of Maharana Pratap of Mewar in India; died defending its master in 1576 during the Battle of ...
Below is a list of Thoroughbred racehorses who were defeated once. The list is not comprehensive for otherwise unnotable horses with fewer than ten wins. Horses such as Wheel of Fortune, Barbaro, Ruffian and Vanity (1812, either 10:9-0-0 or 12:11-0-0 [447]) sustained injury or broke down in their only defeat.
Kelso: only five-time U.S. Horse of the Year, in the list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by The Blood-Horse magazine, Kelso ranks 4th; Kincsem: Hungarian race mare and most successful racehorse ever, winning all 54 starts in five countries; Kindergarten: weighted more than Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup
The 2014 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2014 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) in January 2015. [ 2 ]
Secretariat ranked second behind Man o' War in The Blood-Horse's List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. [2] [146] He was also ranked second behind Man o' War by both a six-member panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press, [147] and a Sports Illustrated panel of seven experts. [148]
Rzewuski described the Koheilan as "unquestionably the noblest horse in the world and often even the most beautiful. His breed is the purest, the most proven. It has never been mixed". [29] His notebook also includes numerous linguistic notes on the Arabic language, [30] and ten pages of genealogical lists of these horses. [31]
In May 2016, he became known for unofficially being the "world's most handsome horse". [2] He is named after the 18th-century Prussian monarch Frederick the Great. [3] Since then, he has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and received offers to appear in films. [4] [5] As of May 31, 2016, his Facebook page had over 35,000 likes. [5]
The Saddlebred has been called the "world's most beautiful horse" by admirers, and is known as the "peacock of the horse world". [5] The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) describes the Saddlebred as follows: "He carries himself with an attitude that is elusive of description—some call it "class", presence, quality, style, or charm ...