Horse Racing
England
- Grand National – The Soarer
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Thais
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – St. Frusquin
- Epsom Derby – Persimmon
- Epsom Oaks – Canterbury Pilgrim
- St. Leger Stakes – Persimmon
Australia
- Melbourne Cup – Newhaven
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Millbrook
Ireland
- Irish Grand National – Royston Crow
- Irish Derby Stakes – Gulsalberk
USA
- Kentucky Derby – Lieut. Gibson
- Preakness Stakes – Margrave
- Belmont Stakes – Hastings
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man to his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not even the one that kicked me.”
—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)