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The Hungarian Sport Horse, Hungarian: 'Magyar sportló', is a modern Hungarian breed of sporting horse. Like the Furioso-North Star , the Gidran , and the Nonius , it was developed at the Hungarian State Stud Mezőhegyes , in Békés county in the Southern Great Plain region of south-eastern Hungary.
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
Kincsem (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkint͡ʃɛm]; Hungarian for "My Precious" or "My Treasure"; March 17, 1874 – March 16, 1887) was a Hungarian Thoroughbred racehorse who has the longest undefeated record of any racehorse after winning all of her 54 races.
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The State Stud of the Hungarian Royal and Imperial Court, Mezőhegyes, was founded in 1784 to help meet the demand for horses. [5] At the time, Hungary was home to 1.5 million horses, with the Hungarian cavalry requiring between 10,000 and 15,000 new mounts per year. [4]
Kisber was a powerfully built [1] bay horse, bred at the Hungarian Imperial Stud from thoroughbreds which had been imported from England. [2] His sire, Buccaneer, a member of the Byerley Turk sire line, had won several important races including the July Stakes and the Royal Hunt Cup.
In 2009 Christophe Soumillon volunteered to ride the horse. After his year opening race at Kincsem Park, Budapest, Overdose was called the Budapest Bullet in Britain, and appeared on the cover of the New York Times, which named him the "Hungarian Seabiscuit". [7] In mid-2009 one of his hooves became inflamed, which resulted in laminitis. This ...