Pedigree Query

The horses in the lower level claiming ranks still tend to race more often than stakes horses. Some trainers want to get rid of them ASAP and I 've seen some run every week or every 2 weeks. Standardbreds usually race every 2 weeks; I think trotting or pacing the race is less hard on the horse than ...

He was said to have a bald face, and from the grainy picture he appears to have quite a bit of white on the legs.

Kincsem won all of her 54 races throughout Europe from 1876 to 1879. Camarero won 56 races in Puerto Rico from Aril 19, 1953 to his first defeat on August 17, 1955. Lenoxbar won 46 out of 56 races in one year, in Puerto Rico in 1940. And we have Assualt, Cigar, and several others with more than 12 c...

Wasn't Sir Barton a maidon when he ran the Derby?

For the record, Kincsem's 39th race may have been a dead heat, but back then they didn't have race videos and instant replay so it was officially a win.

Another promising FuPeg gone lame.

Actually, the reason why AI was never approved in TBs was to prevent so few sires with so many babies overflowing the market. With AI, stallions can produce hundreds, maybe thousands of foals per season. With live cover only, a sire can breed about 100 mares per season(in the case of FuPeg, they are...

Acccording to the Guiness Book of World Records:

Most Career wins by a Racehorse

"Chorisbar(foaled in 1935 in Puerto Rico) won 197 out of 324 races between 1937 and 1947."

Talk about tough!