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The best horse name for your female or male horse or pony is on this list of cute, classic, popular, funny, and rare name ideas, like Seabiscuit and Goldie. 156 Popular Horse Names From Stately ...
Ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, we look back at 10 Kentucky Derby winning horses with unique names we'll never forget.
The list is not comprehensive for otherwise unnotable horses with fewer than ten wins. Horses such as Wheel of Fortune, Barbaro, Ruffian and Vanity (1812, either 10:9-0-0 or 12:11-0-0 [445]) sustained injury or broke down in their only defeat.
Real Quiet: winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes; lost the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, by a margin of four inches; Red Rum: only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times (placed second on two other occasions) Regret: first filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1915)
Dilbagh and Gulbagh, horses of the Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind; Figure (also known by the name of one of his owners, Justin Morgan), the foundation sire of the Morgan horse breed; Gunrock, used in the 1920s at UC Davis to breed horses for the U.S. Army Cavalry; Hollywood Dun It, all-time leading reining sire and Quarter Horse
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John B. Castleman, the "father" of the modern American Saddlebred. The "American Saddle Horse", as a horse breed, was originally devised by John Breckinridge Castleman (June 30, 1841 – May 23, 1918), a Confederate officer; and later, a United States Army brigadier general, as well as a prominent landowner and businessman in Louisville, Kentucky. [11]
The stable boy spelled the name as "Potoooooooo" (Pot followed by 8 "o"s; that is, a failed attempt at spelling phonetically), which so amused Bertie that he adopted the spelling. [3] Subsequent writers have used a variety of spellings that reflect the intended revised pronunciation, "Potatoes". [1] In The Jockey Club's online database ...