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Timeform publishes a number of other books. Its Horses to Follow: Flat Season is composed of short essays on fifty horses deemed worthy of following in the upcoming year's classics. The horses are selected by Timeform's own team of experts along with five leading broadcasters.
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]
Timeform Horse of the Year (1984) [1] Provideo (4 January 1982 – 7 September 2000) was an Irish-bred, English-trained [ 2 ] Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . In 1984 he set a 20th-century record for a British-trained two-year-old when he won sixteen of his twenty-four races.
Sea Bird: second highest Timeform rated horse (rated 145) Sea the Stars: first horse ever to win the 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby, and Arc de Triomphe in the same year (2009) Seabiscuit: beat War Admiral in a nationally broadcast 1938 match race; like Phar Lap, raced during the Depression; Sunday Silence Seattle Slew: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1977)
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.
The 2024 Preakness Stakes was the 149th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs; 1,911 metres). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland .
Last updated on November 3, 2024 Thorpedo Anna (foaled January 28, 2021) is a multiple-Grade 1-race-winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who in 2024 won the Grade I Kentucky Oaks , the Acorn Stakes and the Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga Racetrack and the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Del Mar .
It was formerly open to horses aged three or older, and it used to be classed at Listed level. The minimum age was raised to four in 1998, and the race was promoted to Group 3 status in 2008. The race was sponsored by the Timeform organisation from 2009 to 2016 and was run as the Timeform Jury Stakes.