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36 unusual facts about Thoroughbred


Adrian Knox

The Adrian Knox Stakes is an AJC Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race named in honour of Knox which is held annually at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney in September

Antoni Sole

He is an Arabian horse stockman, eminently of Spanish Thoroughbreds and is one of the most important collectors in the world of items related to Russian cellist Daniil Shafran.

Barbara J. Minshall

Barbara J. Minshall (born November 6, 1953 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner who has competed both in Canada and the United States.

Constant Montpellier

Constant Montpellier (born August 30, 1961 in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec) is a jockey in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing.

Edward B. Cassatt

Colonel Edward Buchanan Cassatt (August 23, 1869 – January 31, 1922) was an American soldier and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Ernie T. Poulos

Ernest T. Poulos (February 18, 1926 - March 30, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Esa Tikkanen

The 1994 Breeders' Cup Turf was won by Tikkanen, a Thoroughbred racehorse named in Esa Tikkanen's honor by George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner of Augustin Stable and an active director of the Buffalo Sabres NHL ice hockey club and a member of the team's executive committee for more than thirty years.

Funny Cide Stakes

The Funny Cide Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses three-years-old and up bred in New York, approved by the New York State-Bred Registry, and run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Gerry Cheevers

Cheevers has also devoted his time to his interests in thoroughbred horse racing.

H. Ryan Price

Henry Ryan Price 16 August 1912 – 16 August 1986) was a British Thoroughbred horse trainer in both flat and National Hunt racing.

Hank Allen

After his baseball playing career, Hank Allen became involved as a trainer/owner in Thoroughbred horse racing, based at Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Courses in Maryland.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn

Hemolytic disease is a well-known condition in newborn foals, especially in Thoroughbreds and mules.

Hipódromo de Monterrico

The Hipódromo de Monterrico is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1960 in Lima, Peru.

Hunter Region

The Hunter Valley is Australia's main region for the breeding and rearing of Thoroughbred horses.

Ibn H'ddri

Eclipse (1 April 1764 – 26 February 1789) was an outstanding, undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse.

The Darley Arabian was the most important sire in the history of the English Thoroughbred.

Jacqueline Auriol

She once explained her passion for flying by saying: "I feel so happy when I'm flying. Perhaps it is the feeling of power, the pleasure of dominating a machine as beautiful as a Thoroughbred horse. Mingled with these basic joys is another less primitive feeling, that of a mission accomplished. Each time I set foot on an airfield, I sense with fresh excitement that this is where I belong."

John A. McDougald

John Angus "Bud" McDougald (March 14, 1908 - March 15, 1978) was a leading Canadian businessman and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.

John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland

John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland KG (4 January 1778 – 20 January 1857), styled Lord Roos from 1778 until 1779 and Marquess of Granby from 1779 until 1787, was a British landowner as well as an owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

John S. Knight

During his retirement, John Knight devoted much of his time to the raising of Thoroughbred race horses at his Fourth Estate Stable based in Miami, Florida.

Leading sire in Australia

The list below shows the leading sire of Thoroughbred racehorses in Australia for each season since 1883–84.

Leah Ray

Leah Ray Werblin and her husband raced Thoroughbred horses under the nom de course, Elberon Farm.

Mangalarga

In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred, Arabian, and American Saddlebred stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Lusitano stallion.

Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad (born January 19, 1949 in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Maryland State Fair

The organized Maryland racing industry took steps to have the Fair's Thoroughbred racing competition dates transferred to other Maryland tracks in order to re-trench a declining audience, purses and media attention.

Nashville Blues

General William Hicks Jackson, owner of the plantation, entertained the group with a showing of his horses, including the Thoroughbred Iroquois.

Pensioner

In the Thoroughbred breeding industry, a pensioner is a stallion that has been retired from stud duty due to declining fertility (usually related to age).

Philip H. Iselin

A member of The Jockey Club, Iselin and Amory L. Haskell headed a group of investors who founded the Monmouth Park Jockey Club in 1944 to build a new Thoroughbred horse racing facility in Oceanport, New Jersey.

Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet

At his stables he raised Thoroughbred racehorses, producing a number of successful winners on the track.

Thomas P. Whitney

Thomas Porter Whitney (January 26, 1917 – December 2, 2007 in Manhattan, New York) was an American diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.

A fan of Thoroughbred racing, as a hobby Whitney owned and raced several horses, most notably winning the Grade 1 Diana Handicap in 1983.

Thoroughbred racing in Australia

The two forms of Thoroughbred horseracing in Australia are flat racing, and races over fences or hurdles in Victoria and South Australia.

Tom Ivers

Tom Ivers (1944–2005) was an equine physiologist and consultant who was a promoter of Interval Training primarily for Standardbreds, Quarter Horses and Thoroughbred racehorses.

Ward C. Pitfield, Jr.

(born September 6, 1925) is a retired Canadian financier and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.

Whitney Tower

Whitney Tower (June 30, 1923 - February 11, 1999) was an American journalist reporting on Thoroughbred horse racing and a president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Woolf Fisher

Sir Woolf Fisher (20 May 1912 – 12 January 1975) was an East Tamaki, New Zealand, businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Fisher & Paykel, a major appliance manufacturing company, and the Ra Ora Stud, an important Thoroughbred racehorse breeding operation.


Aldby Park

This family's best known member is Thomas Darley, brother of Jane Darley, who owned the celebrated Darley Arabian horse which is widely recognised as being the earliest ancestor of most of the world's thoroughbred race horses.

Angel Cordero, Jr.

The Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky and is considered by many as the most important race in American thoroughbred racing.

Bay Meadows Derby

The Bay Meadows Derby was an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses of either gender on the Longden Turf Course at Bay Meadows Racetrack.

Beech House

Beech House Stud, an English Thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm near Newmarket, Suffolk

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Deccan Derby

Deccan Derby is an Indian Thoroughbred horse race held every year at the Hyderabad Race Club, Hyderabad, India.

Donna Barton Brothers

She was one of D. Wayne Lukas' first call jockeys in the 1990s and rode numerous stakes winners, at the time making her the second leading money-earner of all time among female Thoroughbred jockeys.

Dorothy Green

Dolly Green (Dorothy Wellborn Green, 1906–1990), American heiress, philanthropist and thoroughbred owner

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Edward Bradley

Edward R. Bradley (1859–1946), American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder

Elisha Warfield

Known as The Meadows, Elisha Warfield's stud farm was located on Winchester Pike on the Northeast side of Lexington and was where he bred the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred, Lexington.

Elmont, New York

Elmont is famous as the home of Belmont Park which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the prestigious Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing.

Evening Jewel

Evening Jewel (foaled February 26, 2007 in California) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse by Northern Afleet out of Jewel of the Night, by Giant's Causeway.

Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie Race Track has hosted live thoroughbred racing since 1897.

French Trotter

The French Trotter is a horse breed from Normandy, France, developed in the 19th century from Norman horses with the addition of some English Thoroughbred and Norfolk Trotter blood.

Gary Jones

Gary F. Jones (born 1944), retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses

Gaver

John M. Gaver, Jr. (1940–2002), American thoroughbred racehorse trainer

George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

German Riding Pony

The breeding of the Deutsche Reitpony began around 1965, by crossbreeding various English pony breeds, especially Welsh ponies, on Arabians, Anglo-Arabians and Thoroughbreds.

Goldsborough Hall

The story goes that Robert Byerley captured a fine brown horse at the Battle of Buda, the Byerley Turk, which is the eldest founding father to all thoroughbred horses.

Group 3

Group 3, the third tier of races in worldwide Thoroughbred horse racing

I'll Get Along

I'll Get Along (foaled March 11, 1992 in Kentucky) is a Thoroughbred racehorse by Champion Sprinter Smile and out of the stakes winning Foolish Pleasure mare Don't Worry Bout Me, tracing tail female to the mother of all blue hens, La Troienne.

John Heyer

In these early years he worked on such feature films as Heritage, Thoroughbred, White Death in which Zane Grey appeared, and Forty Thousand Horsemen.

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Born in Mount Airy, Maryland, John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing.

Lightning Bar

He was bred by his lifelong owner Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring of Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, and Della P, a Quarter Horse mare from Louisiana, then noted for the breeding of sprint horses.

Little Miss Thoroughbred

Little Miss Thoroughbred is a 1938 film directed by John Farrow.

Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse

The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing.

Newstead Farm

Newstead Farm is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm near Upperville, Virginia founded in 1936 by Taylor Hardin.

NYRA

New York Racing Association, The NY State franchisee which runs racing operations at three New York State Thoroughbred racecourses; Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Racecourse.

Oak Tree Racing Association

In 1968, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, operators of Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California, decided to inform California racing authorities that they did not intend to use the fall dates they were granted and to instead race only a summer meet.

Pearl White

A shrewd businesswoman, she invested in a successful Parisian nightclub, a Biarritz resort hotel/casino, and a profitable stable of thoroughbred race horses.

Preakness

Preakness Stakes, an American flat thoroughbred horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland, named for the above horse

Šantić

Tony Šantić (born 1952), noted Australian thoroughbred owner and tuna farmer

Silvio Coucci

A New Yorker, in 1931 Silvio Coucci rode Thoroughbreds at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico under contract with brothers John and George Coburn.

Sunshine Millions Dash

The Sunshine Millions series of races are restricted to horses bred either in Florida or in California and is the brainchild of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association, Inc., Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park, and Magna Entertainment Corp..

Tony Cruz

Anthony S. Cruz (born 1956), champion Thoroughbred jockey and horse trainer

Victor Edelstein

In 1989 he was described as the English equivalent to Oscar de la Renta, and "the master of the English thoroughbred look".

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

Whitney Tower

In 1976 Whitney Tower, along with E. Barry Ryan, founded Classic magazine, a publication dedicated to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing as well as show jumping events.