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It commemorates one of John Henry's most famous finishes; in 1981, at the inaugural Arlington Million, John Henry won over 5-year-old The Bart in a photo finish. On December 11, 1983, John Henry became the first racehorse to surpass $4 million in career earnings when he won the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes with jockey Chris McCarron at Hollywood ...
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 ...
Seán Ó hEinirí (1915–1998), known in English as John Henry, Irish storyteller and known monolingual speaker of the Irish language; Don Marion Davis (1917–2020), American former child actor known as John Henry Jr. John Raymond Henry (1943–2022), American sculptor; John Henry (born c. 1972), American vocalist in the band Darkest Hour
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).
Once a Grade I event, it is now a Grade II and open to horses three years old and up. It currently offers a purse of $200,000. It currently offers a purse of $200,000. Inaugurated as the Oak Tree Stakes in 1969, from 1971 through 1995 it was called the Oak Tree Invitational Stakes, and from 1996 through 1999, the Oak Tree Turf Championship Stakes.
John Henry, Alysheba, Desert Wine, Danzig Connection, Precisionist, Pine Bluff, Lady's Secret, Sunday Silence, Paseana, Touch Gold, Tiznow, Flawlessly, Alphabet Soup, Go for Gin Christopher John McCarron (born March 27, 1955, Boston , Massachusetts) is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.
Henry Winkler, better known to Happy Days fans as “The Fonz,” turns 79 on Oct. 30!. The American actor became a household name playing Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the hit sitcom, which ...
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