Horse Racing
England
- Grand National – The Huntsman
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Hurricane
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – The Marquis
- Epsom Derby – Caractacus
- Epsom Oaks – Feu de Joie
- St. Leger Stakes – The Marquis
Australia
- Melbourne Cup – Archer (second successive title)
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Palermo
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)