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The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
The Jockey Club is the registry for all Thoroughbred horses in the United States and Canada, and maintains offices in New York City and Lexington, Kentucky. The Registry maintained by The Jockey Club, called the American Stud Book, dates back to the club's founding and contains the descendants of those horses listed, as well as horses imported ...
The Beyer Speed Figure is a system for rating the performance of Thoroughbred racehorses in North America designed in the early 1970s by Andrew Beyer, the syndicated horse racing columnist for The Washington Post. First published in book form in 1975, the Daily Racing Form began incorporating Beyer Speed Figures in a horse's past performances ...
The American Racing Manual ( ARM) is an annual publication now published by Jockey Club, [ 1] previously by Daily Racing Form Press. It covers Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States. The last DRF published edition was for 2020. [ 2] Content of the work covers the previous years racing performances for the United States, thus the 2011 ...
Barbaro: 2006 Kentucky Derby winner whose racing career and life was cut short due to a life-ending injury [1] Battleship (1927–1958) was an American thoroughbred racehorse who is the only horse to have won both the American Grand National and the Grand National steeplechase races.
Thoroughbred racing is a sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport – flat racing and jump racing, the latter known as National Hunt racing in the UK and steeplechasing in the US. Jump racing can be further divided into hurdling and steeplechasing.
In 1952, Anthony DeSpirito won 390 races, breaking Walter Miller's forty-six-year-old record of 388. [1] On December 15, 1973, Sandy Hawley became the first jockey in history to win 500 races in a single year. [2] In 1989, Kent Desormeaux set the current record for wins in a single calendar year with 598. [3]
The American Champion Sprint Horse award is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1947, in 1971 it became part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in sprint races (usually those run at a distance of under one mile). The Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual sprint champion in 1947.