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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.
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.
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
1952 racehorse deaths (10 P) 1953 racehorse deaths (12 P) 1954 racehorse deaths (13 P) 1955 racehorse deaths (7 P) 1956 racehorse deaths (6 P) 1957 racehorse deaths ...
For racehorses, such as Secretariat and Man o' War, see List of racehorses.. Big Ben, Canadian international show jumper and Olympian owned and ridden by Ian Millar; Brentina, American international dressage horse and Olympian ridden by Debbie McDonald
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.
The controversial list, which named Man O'War number one and Secretariat number two, was expanded into a 1999 book which included complete biographies of the horses. [2] All the horses on the list had raced in the United States except Phar Lap, [3] and a few others such as Northern Dancer, Dahlia and Miesque began their careers in another country.
1990s racehorse deaths (10 C, 1 P) 2000s racehorse deaths (10 C, 1 P) 2010s racehorse deaths (10 C, 1 P) 2020s racehorse deaths (5 C, 1 P)