Horse Racing
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Four Ten
- Grand National – Royal Tan
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Rising Fast
- Canada – Queen's Plate won by Collisteo
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Sica Boy
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Zarathustra
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Darius
- Epsom Derby – Never Say Die
- St. Leger Stakes – Never Say Die
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Determine
- Preakness Stakes – Hasty Road
- Belmont Stakes – High Gun
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one’s way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.”
—John Florio (c. 1553–1625)
“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)