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This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the year. It is restricted to stallions which are based in North America, but currently includes earnings from overseas races in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and the United Arab Emirates as well as domestic earnings.
The all-time record, recognized by Guinness World Records, is held by Chorisbar who won 197 times over the course of 324 career starts. [110] Condado , a chestnut horse who raced in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1943, won a grand total of 152 times [ 111 ] Galgo Jr. earned 137 wins in 159 starts from 1930 to 1936. [ 29 ]
The ratings for the horses also help establish two other awards: the aforementioned Longines World's Best Horse Race and the Longines World's Best Jockey. The Longines World's Best Horse Race award recognizes the best-rated race of the highest-rated Group 1 international races as established by a panel of international handicappers.
Ruffian was the top-ranked filly. [2] The small body of voters meant that any individual ballot had the potential to disproportionately influence the final tally, which ended up coming to pass. At the time of the list's unveiling, Blood-Horse managing editor Evan Hammonds spoke to the Associated Press. [3]
No horse bred outside of North America has won the Kentucky Derby since Great Britain’s Tomy Lee in 1959. But it’s clear Japanese horses have arrived in a big way on the global racing stage.
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three of its constituent races. He is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time.
He was the leading sire in North America for 2003 and 2006, [24] and was among the top 10 for 10 consecutive years. [14] He sired 88 graded stakes winners and 12 champions. [17] His 12.5% stakes winners to foals ratio is the best among contemporary American stallions of the "big book era". [8]
No movie or TV show has ever received a perfect 10/10 score. According to the IMDb Top 250, the film that came the closest is The Shawshank Redemption, with a rating of 9.3 and almost 3 million votes.