Horse Racing
- February 8 – champion racehorse Shergar is kidnapped from Ballymany Stud, near the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland. No trace of the horse has ever been found.
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Bregawn
- Grand National – Corbiere
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Kiwi
- Canada – Queen's Plate won by Bompago
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by All Along
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Shareef Dancer
- Japan – Japan Cup won by Stanerra
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Lomond
- Epsom Derby – Teenoso
- St. Leger Stakes – Sun Princess
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Sunny's Halo
- Preakness Stakes – Deputed Testimony
- Belmont Stakes – Caveat
Read more about this topic: 1983 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.”
—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)