1918 in Sports - Horse Racing

Horse Racing

England

  • Grand National – not contested due to World War I
  • 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Ferry
  • 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Gainsborough
  • Epsom Derby – Gainsborough
  • Epsom Oaks – My Dear
  • St. Leger Stakes – Gainsborough

Australia

  • Melbourne Cup – Night Watch

Canada

  • Queen's Plate – Springside

Ireland

  • Irish Grand National – Ballyboggan
  • Irish Derby Stakes – King John

USA

  • Kentucky Derby – Exterminator
  • Preakness Stakes – not contested as a single race
  • Belmont Stakes – Johren

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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:

    “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 15:1.

    “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)