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Thoroughbred horse racing is the main form of horse-racing throughout the world. A trainer, who is hired by the thoroughbred horse's owner, would train the horses for a particular event (the horse trains on a local training track near the stable) and also enter horses into races that would suit the horse. Trainers also have professional relations with jockeys, who ride the horse and give feedback to the trainer after every run.- Handicap Race : One in which the runners have been 'handicapped' according to their performance in other races and other Theoretically, all horses have a chance of being competitive in a race that is correctly handicapped.
- Stakes Races are ones where the competitors usually belong to the same gender, age and class. These races may be ' weight-for-age ', with weights adjusted only according to age, and also there are ' set weights ' where all horses carry the same weight.
- Jumping Races and Steeplechases are done over long distances, and horses carry more weight. Normal jumping races involve horses that are starting out a jumping career, including horses that previously were trained flat racing.
Horses are judged on the weight (a horse carrying 52 kg is said to have better chances than one who carries 58 kg), the barrier gate (horses have less distance to make up if they start from an inside barrier , such as 1, rather than from an outside one, such as 15), the performance over the last three starts, and also the performance on wet tracks, against horses of gender and class (weak or strong opposition). Time ratings and jockey statistics are also factors in a horse's performance in a race, but they are considered less important.
While the attention of horseracing fans and the media is focused almost exclusively on the horse's performance on the racetrack or for male horses or possibly its success as a sire, but little publicity is given the brood mares. Such is the case of La Troienne , one of the most important mares of the 20th century to whom many of the greatest thoroughbred champions, and dams of champions can be traced.
Some of the world's most famous thoroughbred racehorses in flat racing include:
- Affirmed
- All Along
- Alydar
- Blushing Groom
- Brigadier Gerard
- Canonero II
- Cigar
- Citation
- Colin
- Count Fleet
- Dalakhani
- Darshaan
- Daylami
- Dr. Fager
- EquipoiseEquipoise ( 1928 1938) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse, a chestnut bred in the United States by Harry Payne Whitney and owned by his son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. He was by Pennant Swinging out of Broomstick. As a two-year-old, Equipoise got hi
- ExcellerExceller ( 1973 1997) is widely considered one of the best horses to race in the United States and not win a year-end championship. Despite his exemplary achievements as a racehorse, and his unique accomplishment in being the only horse to ever defeat two
- Forego
- Gallant FoxGallant Fox (b. November 13, 1954 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky) Gallant Fox was an American thoroughbred race horse and the second horse to win the Triple Crown. He was a bay colt in color. Gallant Fox was ridden by Earl Sande and trained by Sunny
- John HenryJohn Henry is a thoroughbred race horse named after the folk hero John Henry. He is a gelding. A foal of 1975, John Henry was from breeding that might best be described as plebian. His sire, Ole Bob Bowers, once sold for just $900, and was not in much dem
- Kelso
- KincsemKincsem (Hungarian: "my treasure") was a highly successful race horse born in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1874 to parents Wathernymph and Cambuscan. Over four seasons, she won all 54 of her races across Europe. Pedigree Kincsem had an encouraging pedigree:
- Lammtarra
- Man O' WarMan O' War born ( March 29, 1917 at Nursery Stud farm in Lexington, Kentucky, United States died November 1, 1947 at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, is considered to be one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of all time. From the prominent sire
- Miesque
- Mill ReefMill Reef (1968-1986) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse. He was owned and bred in America at the Rokeby Stables by Paul Mellon. He was the son of Never Bend, out of the mare Milan Mill. Sent to England in December 1969 to be trained by Ian Balding, Mi
- Native DancerNative Dancer ( March 27, 1950- November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Gray Ghost was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television. Born at Scott Farm near Lexingto
- Nijinsky II
- Northern Dancer
- Omaha
- Peintre Célèbre
- Phar Lap
- Ribot
- Risen Star
- Riva Ridge
- Round Table
- Ribot
- Ruffian
- Seabiscuit
- Seattle Slew
- Secretariat
- Shergar
- Sinndar
- Sir Barton
- Smarty Jones
- Spectacular Bid
- Sunline
- Tim Tam
- The Minstrel
- Tom Rolfe
- War Admiral
- Whirlaway
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