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Hall of Fame trainers Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Thomas J. Healey, A. Jack Joyner, R. Wyndham Walden, and Rowe all thought her one of the best fillies of all time. In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park Racetrack , Miss Woodford was voted the fifth greatest filly in American racing history.
It was the fastest time ever run by a two-year-old, colt or filly, at Saratoga. [11] Ruffian was entered in the Frizette Stakes on September 26 but was scratched on the day of the race due to a high temperature. [12] Whitely then considered running her against colts in the Champagne Stakes but she went off her feed and ran another fever.
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 ]
Ridden by Philip Robinson, she produced her best performance of the season, producing a "strong run" in the closing stages and failing by a head to catch Desirable. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the best European two-year-olds, Pebbles was given a weight of 119 pounds , fourteen pounds behind the top-rated El Gran Senor and six pounds below ...
Man o' War was listed in first, second or third place on all seven ballots; six of the voters gave the same placement to Secretariat. However, Hammonds noted, a single voter left Secretariat out of that person's top 10 "because he got beat a few times". The result was that Secretariat became second, rather than first, in the aggregated final list.
In 2023, the Japan Cup in association with Longines was named the World's Best Horse Race. Additionally, the IFHA releases the top 100 Group/Grade 1 races each year. [2] 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 ...
It is run at Aqueduct Racetrack and is a race for three-year-old fillies only, at a distance of six furlongs. [21] Ruthless was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1975. [3] The racing journalist, W. S. Vosburgh, considered her to be the best three-year-old of her racing year. [22]
The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is a 7-furlong (1408 m) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred fillies and mares three years old and up. As its name implies, it is a part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, generally held in the United States (also held one time in Canada).