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Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
Desert Gold: race mare who won 19 races successive races during World War I; often raced against Gloaming; Desert Orchid: won King George four times and Cheltenham Gold Cup; Dr. Fager: "the Doctor"; set the world record at 1 mile on any surface, 1:32 1/5, and held it for more than 20 years. The only horse in American history who in 1968 won ...
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Breeders speak of a "nick" occurring when a sire or grandsire produces significantly better offspring from the daughters of one particular sire than with mares from other bloodlines. The breeding of Bold Ruler with Somethingroyal is an example of a famous nick between Bold Ruler's sire Nasrullah and daughters of Princequillo. The goal was to ...
The practice of breeding a mare through human assisted means, with no contact between the stallion and mare. It is done for many reasons, including to protect the two animals, to allow a mare to be bred to a stallion a long distance away, [1]: 11 or to allow a stallion to be bred to a larger number of mares than would be possible via natural cover.
The Byerley Turk mare out of Bustler Mare, the taproot of family 8, which has produced 7 Oaks winners, 11 Derby winners, and 15 St Leger winners including Nijinsky [17] The Byerley Turk mare that was the taproot of family 17, which has produced 2 Oaks and 3 St Leger winners; The Byerley Turk mare that was the taproot of family 41 [18] [19]
Pan Zareta started 151 times with 76 wins and is considered to be the "winningest female Thoroughbred in American history". [115] Catherina (1830, by Whisker) started in 176 races and won 79 of them, many over long distances, including the Manchester Cup, Tradesmen's Cup, and Heaton Park's King's Cup.
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.