Horse Racing
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Silver Buck
- Grand National – Grittar
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Gurner's Lane
- Canada – Queen's Plate won by Son of Briartic
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Akiyda
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Assert
- Japan – Japan Cup won by Half Iced
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Zino
- Epsom Derby – Golden Fleece
- St. Leger Stakes – Touching Wood
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Gato Del Sol
- Preakness Stakes – Aloma's Ruler
- Belmont Stakes – Conquistador Cielo
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)