Famous Horses
Here you will find online
histories - biographies - and tributes to famous race
horses from around the world.
Other Famous Race Horses
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.
Barbaro - was an American thoroughbred
that decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby but
shattered his leg two weeks later, in the 2006
Preakness Stakes.
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
Dance Smartly - Breeders' Cup champion.
Eclipse - celebrated 18th century racehorse
that won 18 races in 18 starts.
Funny Cide - ame very close to becoming
the twelfth horse to take the American Triple
Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 2003.
Goldsmith Maid - famous harness racing
mare of the 19th Century.
John Henry - was an American Thoroughbred
race horse named after the folk hero John Henry.
Richest gelding of any breed in history.
Kingston Town - was a champion Australian
racehorse of the 1980s.
Lottery - UK
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).
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.
Phar Lap - New Zealand racehorse.
Precious Bunny
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.
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
War Admiral - famous Thoroughbred Race
Horse
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