Horse Racing
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Midnight Court
- Grand National – Lucius
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Arwon
- Canada – Queen's Plate won by Regal Embrace
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Alleged
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Shirley Heights
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Roland Gardens
- Epsom Derby – Shirley Heights
- St. Leger Stakes – Julio Mariner
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Affirmed
- Preakness Stakes – Affirmed
- Belmont Stakes – Affirmed
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.”
—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)