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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 [447]) sustained injury or broke down in their only defeat.
Horses arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 along with the earliest colonists. [67] Although horses of part-Thoroughbred blood were imported into Australia during the late 18th century, it is thought that the first pureblood Thoroughbred was a stallion named Northumberland who was imported from England in 1802 as a coach horse sire ...
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Katsuragi Ace: First Japanese-trained horse to win the Japan Cup; Kauto Star: record five-time winner of the King George VI Chase; Keen Ice: 2015 Travers Stakes winner; 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
Whirlaway (April 2, 1938 – April 6, 1953) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the fifth winner of the American Triple Crown.He also won the Travers Stakes after his Triple Crown sweep to become the first and only horse to win all four races.
Once a horse stops racing for five years, the name is put back into circulation unless it has reached a certain level of success as defined by the Jockey Club (such as horses in racing’s Hall of ...
Turkoman was lightly raced at two, winning only a six-furlong maiden race at Hollywood Park.. At three, he won the Grade III Affirmed Handicap, placed second in the Grade I Travers Stakes, was second in the Grade I Swaps Stakes, finished second in the California Derby, and was third in the Breeders' Cup Classic behind winner Proud Truth and Gate Dancer.
Nashua was the betting favorite to win the 1955 Kentucky Derby but was beaten by the second choice, Swaps. [3]In the 1955 Preakness Stakes, second leg of the Triple Crown, Swaps did not run and Nashua won by a length over a surprisingly strong challenge by Marion duPont Scott's colt, Saratoga.