Horse Racing
- July 14 – Citation winds his 32nd race, the Hollywood Gold Cup, becoming the first equine millionaire.
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Silver Fame
- Grand National – Nickel Coin
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup is won by Delat
- Canada – Queen's Plate is won by Major Factor
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is won by Tantieme
- Ireland – Irish Derby is won by Fraise du Bois II
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Ki Ming
- Epsom Derby – Arctic Prince
- St. Leger Stakes – Talma
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Count Turf
- Preakness Stakes – Bold
- Belmont Stakes – Counterpoint
Read more about this topic: 1951 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one’s way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.”
—John Florio (c. 1553–1625)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)