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2000 Guineas Stakes
2000 Guineas Stakes, a Group 1 mile race at Newmarket's Rowley Mile for three-year-old colts and fillies; first run 1809, first British Classic and Triple Crown first leg; winners include Frankel and Ruling Court.
2018 Kentucky Derby
2018 Kentucky Derby: 144th running, May 5, 2018, Churchill Downs. Justify, trained by Bob Baffert, ridden by Mike Smith, won by 2 1/2 lengths over Good Magic on the wettest Derby on record (3.15 inches of rain), then swept the Triple Crown.
2019 Kentucky Derby
2019 Kentucky Derby (145th running, May 4, 2019, Churchill Downs): Maximum Security finished first but was the first on-track DQ winner in Derby history; Country House (65-1) was elevated to first, paying $132.40, on a record $250.9 million handle.
2024 in horse racing
2024 in horse racing saw City of Troy and Laurel River share the World's Best Racehorse title, Mystik Dan win the Kentucky Derby, and a record-low US fatality rate.
2025 Kentucky Derby
2025 Kentucky Derby (151st running, May 3, 2025, Churchill Downs): Sovereignty, 7-1, trained by Bill Mott for Godolphin, beat favorite Journalism by 1½ lengths in 2:02.31 on a sloppy track; later won the Belmont.
2026 Kentucky Derby
2026 Kentucky Derby, 152nd Run for the Roses, May 2, 2026 at Churchill Downs; 20-horse $5 million race won by 35-1 Golden Tempo, trained by Cherie DeVaux, first woman trainer to win it.
Ace Impact
Ace Impact (foaled 13 February 2020) is an Irish-bred, French-trained unbeaten Thoroughbred by Cracksman who won the 2023 Prix du Jockey Club and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, was named Cartier European Horse of the Year, and retired to Haras de Beaumont.
Admire Vega (アドマイヤベガ)
Admire Vega (アドマイヤベガ), 1996–2004, Japanese Thoroughbred by Sunday Silence out of Vega; won the 1999 Japanese Derby (G1) under Yutaka Take, then sired G1 winners Kiss to Heaven and Blumenblatt.
Aidan O'Brien
Aidan O'Brien, Irish racehorse trainer at Ballydoyle, private trainer to Coolmore's John Magnier since 1996; record 28 Group 1 wins in 2017, nine Epsom Derbys, 4,000+ winners, champion Irish trainer since 1999.
Aintree Racecourse
Aintree Racecourse, Merseyside, home of the Grand National steeplechase since 1839; founded 1829 by William Lynn on land leased from the Earl of Sefton; also hosted the British Grand Prix five times.
Air Jihad (エアジハード)
Air Jihad (エアジハード), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse foaled 1995 at Shadai Farm; won the 1999 Yasuda Kinen and Mile Championship G1s, 1999 JRA Best Sprinter or Miler, sire of Showa Modern.
Air Shakur (エアシャカール)
Air Shakur (エアシャカール), Japanese racehorse 1997-2003 by Sunday Silence; won 2000 Satsuki Sho and Kikuka Sho, second in the Japanese Derby, fifth in the King George at Ascot; died young at stud.
Alec N. Wildenstein
Alec N. Wildenstein (1940-2008), French art dealer of the Wildenstein & Co. family and owner of Ecurie Wildenstein racehorses; known for his divorce from Jocelyne and the 2005 Ascot Gold Cup win with Westerner.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. was an American racehorse owner, breeder, and track executive who managed Sagamore Farm, bred the Hall of Famer Native Dancer, and served as president of Pimlico and Belmont Park.
American Horse of the Year
American Horse of the Year: top US Thoroughbred honor, decided since 1971 by Eclipse Award voting among NTRA, Daily Racing Form, and NTWAB; 2025 winner Sovereignty; Forego won three titles.
American Pharoah
American Pharoah (foaled 2012) is a Thoroughbred racehorse, the 12th Triple Crown winner (2015), first since Affirmed 1978; by Pioneerof the Nile, trained by Bob Baffert, ridden by Victor Espinoza, later at Ashford Stud.
Anthony Ciulla
Anthony "Big Tony" Ciulla (also "Fat Tony"; later Tony Capra), American horse race fixer of the 1970s who bribed jockeys in hundreds of races at 39 tracks, then became a federal witness; died 2003.
Aqueduct Racetrack
Aqueduct Racetrack (the Big A), Queens, New York City's only racetrack, opened 1894, rebuilt 1959, home of the Wood Memorial and winter inner dirt track (1975–2017); final live racing June 28, 2026, with Resorts World casino on site.
Arima Kinen (有馬記念)
Arima Kinen (有馬記念), Japan's year-end G1 'Grand Prix' at Nakayama Racecourse since 1956, a 2,500m turf race whose top ten runners are chosen by fan vote; richest race alongside the Japan Cup.
Ascot Gold Cup
Gold Cup (Ascot Gold Cup): Group 1 flat race at Royal Ascot over 2m3f210y for horses aged four and older, first run 1807; record winners Yeats (4), jockey Lester Piggott (11), trainer Aidan O'Brien (10).
Ascot Racecourse
Ascot Racecourse, founded by Queen Anne in 1711 in Berkshire, England, hosts Royal Ascot each June plus 26 race days yearly; a right-handed triangular round course, straight mile, 2006 £200m grandstand, and £264.5m UK economic impact.
Assault (horse)
Assault (1943-1971) was a Texas-bred King Ranch Thoroughbred, the seventh and only Texas-bred American Triple Crown winner, taking the 1946 Derby, Preakness, and Belmont for trainer Max Hirsch; nicknamed the Club-Footed Comet.
Aston Machan (アストンマーチャン)
Aston Machan (アストンマーチャン), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, 5 March 2004 to April 2008; won 5 of 11 starts including the 2007 Sprinters Stakes (G1) at Nakayama; by Admire Cozzene, not the Uma Musume character.
Authentic (racehorse)
Authentic (foaled 2017) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, by Into Mischief out of Flawless, who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic and was named 2020 Horse of the Year.
Belmont Park
Belmont Park, Elmont, New York: NYRA thoroughbred racetrack and traditional home of the Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown's final leg. Rebuilt with a $455 million state loan; new 275,000-sq-ft grandstand opened September 18, 2026; hosts 2027 Breeders' Cup.
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes, known as the Test of the Champion, is a Grade 1 American Thoroughbred race for three-year-olds, run each June since 1867 as the Triple Crown's final leg.
Bill Shoemaker
Bill Shoemaker (William Lee Shoemaker, "The Shoe"), 1931–2003, American Hall of Fame jockey; won a then-record 8,833 races, four Kentucky Derbies, and 11 Triple Crown races over a 1949–1990 career.
Biwa Hayahide (ビワハヤヒデ)
Biwa Hayahide (ビワハヤヒデ), Japanese gray Thoroughbred (1990, by Sharrood out of Pacificus), 1993 JRA Horse of the Year; won Kikuka Sho, Tenno Sho Spring, Takarazuka Kinen; 10 wins from 16 starts; half-brother of Triple Crown winner Narita Brian.
Black Caviar
Black Caviar (2006-2024), nicknamed Nelly, Australian Thoroughbred sprinter by Bel Esprit out of Helsinge; unbeaten in 25 starts, 15 Group 1 wins, 2012 Royal Ascot Diamond Jubilee winner; died of laminitis after her ninth foal.
Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert (born 1953, Nogales, Arizona) is an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred trainer with a record 17 Triple Crown race wins, six Kentucky Derbies, and two Triple Crowns, whose career includes the Medina Spirit betamethasone disqualification and Churchill Downs suspension.