1- Kentucky Derby Hundreds of thousands of people flock to Churchill Downs in May every year to witness some of the best sporting spectacle. Some of the best three-year thoroughbreds compete over a distance of 1 ¼ miles. The most famous horses in the history of this race are Secretariat and American Pharoah.
Kentucky Derby
Our credibility would have crumbled if we didn't put the planet's most famous horse race on the number 1 spot. The Kentucky Derby started in 1875, is the primary leg of the Triple Crown, and is held on the first Saturday of May every year.
Triple Crown, in American horse racing, championship attributed to a three-year-old Thoroughbred that in a single season wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes.
The Melbourne Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
Churchill Downs is world-famous as the home of the Kentucky Derby. It was established in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1875 and has run races ever since. The horse racing schedule features three race meets – in spring, September and fall.
Established in 1539, Chester is the oldest racecourse still in operation in the world. During the Roman occupation of Britain, most of the modern sixty-five-acre site of Chester Racecourse was not even dry land.
The largest of Australia's racetracks is Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. Flemington is home to the famous Melbourne Cup in November and the accompanying Melbourne Cup Carnival.
Horse racing is one of the most popular and oldest sports in Australia. Thoroughbred racing is the third most attended sport in the country, and has some of the world's most famous jockeys and horses.
Horse racing is one of Australia's oldest and most popular sports. The first organized thoroughbred race meeting in this country was held in Hyde Park, Sydney, in 1810, with Governor Macquarie in attendance.
The Everest is billed as the “world's richest race on turf” with twelve of the fastest horses competing over a distance of 1200 metres at Randwick Racecourse for prizemoney of $15,000,000. The Everest will be held on Saturday 14th October 2023 and won in 2022 by Giga Kick.
The Dubai Cup was first staged in 1996 and is now a regular 'big pot' horse race that is run at the end of March at Meydan. Run over 1m2f, the race used to be the richest horse race in the world between 1996 and 2020, until the Saudi Cup was created.
Zippy Chippy won the hearts of many fans. Zippy Chippy was a racehorse but he never won a single race. In his 100 races, he came close a few times, but he just never understood why all the other horses were in such a rush, reported CBS News.
In fact, the biggest horse ever measured is the Shire gelding Sampson, who is now called Mammoth. Mammoth was born in England in 1846 and stood at 21.2-1/2 hands, over 7 feet 2.5 inches tall! That is more than 4 inches taller than the world's biggest Clydesdale, Poe.
Bill Shoemaker –
Regarded as the greatest horse rider ever, and certainly, the greatest ever to ride in North America that's for sure. Bill accumulated 8,883 race wins during his 41-year career-long journey. It has been estimated that he won a massive $123 million as a jockey and a further $3.7 million as a trainer.
The St. Leger Stakes, which had been run at Homebush from 1841, was continued at the new Randwick course and continues to the present, making it the oldest classic race in Australia (although it skipped a year in 1860).
Most of the estimated 400 000 feral horses occur in the extensive cattle production areas of the Northern Territory, Queensland and some parts of Western Australia and South Australia. Scattered populations are also found in New South Wales and Victoria, mainly in alpine and sub-alpine areas.
The Australian Stock Horse (or Stockhorse), has been especially bred for Australian conditions. It is a hardy breed of horse noted for endurance, agility, and good temperament. Its ancestry dates to the arrival of the first horses in Australia, brought from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The Melbourne Cup is one of the biggest horse races in the world. Every November, horse racing fans gather at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne to witness "the race that stops a nation". The race is a 3200-metre handicap and it draws some of the most talented horses, jockeys and trainers from around the world.
In order to compete in races that offer the highest prize money, most horses are raced as 2 and 3 year-olds though some will race as young as 1 year and nine months. This is despite the fact that the horses are still physically immature and prone to injury.
Wikipedia says that the term "Gee-Gee" is taken from horse-racing where a Gee-Gee is the first horse out of the starting gate. Other sources say that GG is short for the command given to horses to go: "gee up".
Although some of the most prestigious races are confined to three year olds, generally flat racehorses tend to be at their peak aged four or five. Jump racehorses generally don't start racing until they are four, and their careers tend to go on much longer, until they are twelve or sometimes older.
Mongolia holds more than 3 million horses, an equine population which outnumbers the country's human population.