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Famous Horses

Here you will find online histories - biographies - and tributes to famous race horses from around the world.


Other Famous Race Horses

A
Abercrombie
- (1975 - 2000) was a bay harness racing horse. He won 22 of his 33 races in 1978.
Adios - (1940–1965) was a champion harness racing sire.
Adios Butler - famous harness racer
Affirmed - last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown (1978).
Albatross
All Along
Alydar - finished second to Affirmed in all three Triple Crown races, and one of the great sires in North American history.
Arkle - reckoned the greatest steeplechaser of all time.
Assault - United States 1946 Triple Crown winner.

B
Barbaro
- was an American thoroughbred that decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby but shattered his leg two weeks later, in the 2006 Preakness Stakes.

C
Cigar
- a great champion in the 1990s.
Citation - Triple Crown winner in 1948.
Chetak - The famous war horse of KATHIAWARI breed owned by Maharana Pratap of Udaipur & Chitod, in INDIA


D
Dance Smartly
- Breeders' Cup champion.

E
Eclipse
- celebrated 18th century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts.

F
Funny Cide
- ame very close to becoming the twelfth horse to take the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 2003.

G
Goldsmith Maid
- famous harness racing mare of the 19th Century.

J
John Henry
- was an American Thoroughbred race horse named after the folk hero John Henry. Richest gelding of any breed in history.

K
Kingston Town
- was a champion Australian racehorse of the 1980s.

L
Lottery
- UK

M
Man O' War
- who re-wrote the record books.
Might and Power - was one of the great thoroughbreds of Australian horse-racing.
Montrose
Nijinsky II - last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970).

N
Native Dancer
- nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history
Northerly

Northern Dancer - was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century.

P
Phar Lap
- New Zealand racehorse.
Precious Bunny

R
Red Rum
- only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times.
Ruffian - a filly who won every race she started - except the one that killed her.

S
Seattle Slew
- Triple Crown winner in 1977.
Seabiscuit - became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression
Secretariat - Triple Crown winner of 1973.
Shergar - the kidnapped winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby.
Smarty Jones
Steel Dust - 19th Century quarter-mile racing horse.
Stewball - immortalized in 18th century Irish poetry as a sku-ball winning against a thoroughbred

W
War Admiral
- famous Thoroughbred Race Horse

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