Horse Racing
Events
- Inaugural running of the Preakness Stakes is won by Survivor
England
- Grand National – Disturbance
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Cecilia
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Gang Forward
- Epsom Derby – Doncaster
- Epsom Oaks – Marie Stuart
- St. Leger Stakes – Marie Stuart
Australia
- Melbourne Cup – Don Juan
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Mignonette
Ireland
- Irish Grand National – Torrent
- Irish Derby Stakes – Kyrle Daly
USA
- Preakness Stakes – Survivor
- Belmont Stakes – Springbok
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“God help the horse, and the driver too!
And the people and beasts who have never a friend!
For the driver easily might have been you,
And the horse be me by a different end!
And nobody knows how their days will cease!
And the poor, when they’re old, have little of peace!”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“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)