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Godasse, horse of the French soldier Godaille in the comics series Godaille et Godasse by Jacques Sandron. [7] Het Gouden Paard, a horse whose skin is gold. Appears in the Suske en Wiske story Het Gouden Paard. [8] Hero, the fastest horse in the world; owned by The Phantom. Hirnu the pony, the protagonist of Hirnu, a Finnish comic strip by ...
Dan Patch made his first start as a four-year-old in 1900. At the time, harness races consisted of multiple heats – a horse had to win a majority of heats (usually three out of a possible five heats) to be declared the race winner. [8] [a] During his career, Dan Patch never lost a race and lost only two heats. [14]
The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less; some have been clocked at speeds up to 88.5 km/h (55.0 mph). 19 Blue wildebeest: 80.5 km/h (50.0 mph) [c] Land 20
Dayjur was a dark-brown horse standing 15.3 hands [3] bred in Kentucky by Georgia E. Hofmann. [4] He was sired by Danzig out of the American Champion Sprinter Gold Beauty.As a yearling he was bought for $1.65m [5] by Hamdan Al-Maktoum and sent to be trained in England.
The gallop is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), and in the wild is used when the animal needs to flee from predators or simply cover short distances quickly. Horses seldom will gallop more than 1.5 or 3 kilometres (0.93 or 1.86 mi) before they need to rest, though horses can sustain a ...
Varenne holds the record as the most widely traveled horse in the history of horse racing, winning in 7 countries and on two continents. He is the sole European trotter to win the Breeders Crown (2001) in the US, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] where he set the world speed record ( 1 mile in 1.51.1 - average per kilometer 1.09.1).
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Some terrestrial animals are built for achieving extremely high speeds, such as the cheetah, pronghorn, race horse and greyhound, while humans can train to achieve high sprint speeds. There is no single determinant of maximum running speed: however, certain factors stand out against others and have been investigated in both animals and humans.