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The Australian Racing Hall of Fame is part of the Australian Racing Museum which documents and honours the horseracing legends of Australia. The museum officially opened in 1981 and created the Hall of Fame in 2000. The numbers in brackets after each name indicates the year of induction into the Hall of Fame. Tranquil Star, 2008 inductee.
Category for racehorses which were either foaled in Australia or raced extensively in Australia. Horses portal; ... Pages in category "Australian racehorses"
Horse must have earned $1,000,000 (AUD) in Australia and/or New Zealand races and/or won at least one Group 1 race when officially trained in Australia or New Zealand. Examples of horses excluded: Dunaden [(Fr), Nicobar (GB) - La Marlia (Fr)] won $8,122,328 (AUD) in career prizemoney, of which $5,600,000 was earned in Australian races ...
Thoroughbred Winning Brew holds the Guinness world record for the fastest speed from the starting gate for a Thoroughbred racehorse, at 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph) over two furlongs, [3] although Quarter Horses attain higher speeds over shorter distances than Thoroughbreds. [4] Such speeds may also be achieved by elite racehorses during the stretch ...
Pages in category "Australian Racing Hall of Fame horses" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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; Kingston: all-time record holder of the most wins by a horse with 89; Kingston Town: won three Cox Plates; first Australian horse to top $1million in stakes earnings
Peppermint Grove, ridden by Australian Gillian Rolton; Radium, outstanding campdrafter; influential sire in Australia; Rafalca, American international dressage horse and Olympian co-owned by Jan Ebeling and Ann Romney; Scamper, ProRodeo Hall of Fame horse in barrel racing for hall of fame rider Charmayne James.
This award originally started as the VRC Award and was renamed Australia's Champion Racehorse in 1982. A separate award was voted on between 1976/77 and 1993/4 by the Australian Racing Writers' Association with the only variations being Gurner's Lane (1982/3) and Bonecrusher (1986/7). The voting bodies combined from 1993/4.