enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. John Henry (horse) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(horse)

    John Henry (March 9, 1975 – October 8, 2007) was an American champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by Ole Bob Bowers (by Prince Blessed ) out of Once Double (by Double Jay ). John Henry had 39 wins with $6,591,860 in earnings, was twice voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year , and was listed as #23 on Blood Horse magazine's Top ...

  3. Arlington Million - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Million

    The horse John Henry won the race twice. [5] [6] On August 30, 1981, Willie Shoemaker became the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry took the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart. The track famously ran the Arlington Million in 1985 under the shadow of a burnt-out grandstand, after a fire had ...

  4. List of racehorses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racehorses

    John Henry: U.S. Champion Turf Horse (1980, 1981, 1983, 1984) Johnstown: winner of the 1939 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes; Jungle Pocket: 2001 winner of the Japanese Derby and Japan Cup; Justify: 2018 winner of the U.S. Triple Crown

  5. List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leading...

    In 1979, Affirmed became the first horse to break the two million dollar barrier, [611] finishing his career with earnings of $2.3 million. Purses began to increase sharply soon afterwards thanks in large part to the Breeders' Cup. John Henry was the first to surpass $5 million, earning just shy of $6.6 million by the end of his career in 1984.

  6. John Henry Turf Championship Stakes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Turf...

    The John Henry Turf Championship Stakes (renamed for John Henry who won it three times) is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the Oak Tree Racing Association's Autumn Meeting at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

  7. John Henry Handicap - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Handicap

    The John Henry Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California from 1986 through 1994. [1] A Grade II event open to horses age three and older, it was contest on turf over a distance of one and one eighth miles (9 furlongs).

  8. John Henry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry

    John Henry most commonly refers to: ... John Henry (horse) (1975–2007), American Thoroughbred race horse; John Henry, an American brand of clothing, ...

  9. Silky Sullivan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silky_Sullivan

    His trainer, West Coast veteran Reggie Cornell, said "I've never seen a horse in my life, or heard of one either, go faster." Cornell trained horses for movie star Betty Grable and her husband, bandleader Harry James. He was the uncle and mentor of Hall-of-Famer Ron McAnally, who trained John Henry. Willie Shoemaker once said of Silky Sullivan ...