Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
- Ted Atkinson, Hall of Fame jockey
- Russell Baze (born 1958), Hall of Fame jockey. Currently #2 winningest jockey in history.
- Big Ben, world show-jumping champion
- Billyjojimbob – distinguished aged trotter; winner of the Elitlopp
- John Campbell – harness racing driver
- Dance Smartly – Canadian Triple Crown, Breeders' Cup champion
- Jim Day – Olympic equestrian Gold medalist, champion thoroughbred trainer
- Stewart Elliott – thoroughbred racing jockey
- Hervé Filion – harness racing driver
- Sandy Hawley Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey
- John Hayes (1917–1998), harness racing driver
- Johnny Longden (1907–2003), Hall of Fame jockey
- Nijinsky II, last English Triple Crown winner
- Northern Dancer – Canada's most successful and beloved race horse
- Red Pollard (1909–1981), Seabiscuit's jockey
- Strike Out – harness racing champion
- Ron Turcotte (born 1941), Hall of Fame jockey of Secretariat
- George Woolf (1910–1946), Hall of Fame jockey
- Ian Millar (born 1947), owner and rider of Big Ben
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Famous quotes containing the words horse, racing and/or sports:
“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech’s daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)