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Castleshane: winner of eight flat races and two jumps. Charles the Twelfth: winner of the St Leger Stakes in the year 1839. Cicero: winner of the 1905 Epsom Derby as the shortest-priced successful favourite in the history of the event. Cigar: champion in the 1990s who won 16 consecutive races.
Ruffian. Ruffian (April 17, 1972 – July 7, 1975) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won ten consecutive races, including the Acorn, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks, then known as the American Triple Tiara. She was in the lead at every point of call in every race she ever ran and set new stakes records in each of the eight ...
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 [445]) sustained injury or broke down in their only defeat.
But names can come from anything -- current events, a favorite pastime, a location or pop culture. In 2010, a Bleacher Report article listed its top 20 picks for the funniest racehorse names of ...
Autumn Dew, horse owned by Emperor Taizong of Tang. Babieca, horse of El Cid. Bill the Bastard, legendary Australian war horse. Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976. Blueskin, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War.
Zenyatta. Zenyatta (foaled April 1, 2004) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Breeders' Cup Classic and Breeders' Cup Distaff and 19 of her 20 starts. She was the 2010 American Horse of the Year, and Champion Older Female in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2016.
Last updated on 21 November 2021. Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s. He beat the 1937 Triple Crown winner, War Admiral, by four lengths in a two-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.
This is a list of notable jockeys, both male and female, covering jockeys who have competed worldwide in all forms of horse racing