Horse Racing
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Master Smudge
- Grand National – Ben Nevis
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Beldale Ball
- Canada – Queen's Plate won by Driving Home
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Detroit
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Tyrnavos
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Known Fact
- Epsom Derby – Henbit
- St. Leger Stakes – Light Cavalry
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Genuine Risk
- Preakness Stakes – Codex
- Belmont Stakes – Temperance Hill
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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)