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The Longines World's Best Jockey [3] is named each December. The top 100 Group 1 and Grade 1 races serve as the base of this annual competition to recognize top jockeys throughout the world. Frankie Dettori has won the award four times, as he was named the Longines World's Best Jockey in 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
The 2023 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2023 edition of the World's Best Racehorse Rankings. [1] It was an assessment of Thoroughbred racehorses issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on 23 January 2024. [2] It included horses aged three or older which competed in flat races ...
The controversial list, which named Man O'War number one and Secretariat number two, was expanded into a 1999 book which included complete biographies of the horses. [ 2 ] All the horses on the list had raced in the United States except Phar Lap , [ 3 ] and a few others such as Northern Dancer , Dahlia and Miesque began their careers in another ...
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
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]
looks like this article has the wrong title. The actual title of the book is Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century. It is a world wide list not just a US one. I will put a move of the article on my to-do list but anyone else who sees this is free to make the move. Thanks for catching this IP.
In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the Top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Citation was ranked #3. Around the time of Citation's death, Jim Taylor, a marketing executive at Cessna Aircraft Company, convinced chairman Dwane Wallace to use Citation's name for the new business jet Cessna was designing.
That year, he was voted Champion Older Horse and again Horse of the Year. [5] In 1962, he won a third Horse of the Year title, taking 28 of the 32 votes in the Daily Racing Form poll. [ 6 ] A year later, he was even more dominant, being a unanimous choice for his fourth DRF title, [ 7 ] as well as taking the Horse of the Year awards of the ...