Horse Racing
Steeplechases
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Best Mate
- Grand National – Monty's Pass
Flat races
- Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Makybe Diva
- Canadian Triple Crown Races:
- Queen's Plate won by Wando
- Prince of Wales Stakes won by Wando
- Breeders' Stakes won by Wando
- Wando becomes the seventh horse to win the Canadian Triple Crown.
- Dubai – Dubai World Cup won by Moon Ballad
- France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Dalakhani
- Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Alamshar
- Japan – Japan Cup won by Tap Dance City
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Refuse To Bend
- Epsom Derby – Kris Kin
- St. Leger Stakes – Brian Boru
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby won by Funny Cide
- Preakness Stakes won by Funny Cide
- Belmont Stakes won by Empire Maker
- Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships:
- Breeders' Cup Classic – Pleasantly Perfect
- Breeders' Cup Distaff – Adoration
- Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf – Islington
- Breeders' Cup Juvenile – Action This Day
- Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies – Halfbridled
- Breeders' Cup Mile – Six Perfections
- Breeders' Cup Sprint – Cajun Beat
- Breeders' Cup Turf – High Chaparral and Johar dead-heated
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Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“The horse is taught his manage, and no star
Of wildest course but treads back his own steps;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“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)