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This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the year. It is restricted to stallions which are based in North America, but currently includes earnings from overseas races in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and the United Arab Emirates as well as domestic earnings.
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 country.
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.
Excluding any championships by the foundation stallions themselves, the following sire-lines have produced champion sires (1721–2016): [2] [3] Darley Arabian – 88 stallions, 188 championships. all titles since 1964; Byerley Turk – 17 stallions, 59 championships, most recently Tetratema in 1929
In 1994, Sports Illustrated ranked Secretariat #17 in their list of the 40 greatest sports figures of the past 40 years. [31] In 1999, ESPN listed him 35th of the 100 greatest North American athletes of the 20th century , the highest of three non-humans on the list (the other two were also racehorses: Man o' War at 84th and Citation at 97th ...
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Below is a list of Thoroughbred racehorses who were defeated once. 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.
Easy Goer: Hall of Fame champion who ran the fastest mile of all time on dirt by any three-year-old Thoroughbred in 1:32.2; ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind Secretariat; had a great rivalry with Sunday Silence; Eclipse: celebrated 18th-century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts; influential sire
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