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Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (Défi des Haras), France's premier Group 1 steeplechase, run each May at Auteuil over 6,000 m with 23 fences; first run 1874, prize €820,000.
Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil
Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil, the French Champion Hurdle: Group 1 staying hurdle race over 5,100 m for 5yo+, first run 1874 at Auteuil, Paris; 16 obstacles; recent dual winner Losange Bleu.
Grass Wonder (グラスワンダー)
Grass Wonder (グラスワンダー), American-bred Japanese racehorse (1995-2025) by Silver Hawk; two-time Arima Kinen winner, 1999 Takarazuka Kinen, rival of Special Week; sire of Screen Hero; Umamusume inspiration.
Great Eastern Steeplechase
The Great Eastern Steeplechase, also known as the Onkaparinga Steeplechase, is a jumps horse race first run in 1876 at Oakbank Racecourse in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.
Great Northern Steeplechase
Great Northern Steeplechase, also Great New Zealand Steeplechase, a New Zealand jumps horse race first run in 1885 at Ellerslie over about 6,400 m and 25 fences; renamed and moved to Te Aroha in 2025.
Greenall Whitley Gold Cup
The Greenall Whitley Gold Cup was a handicap steeplechase run at Haydock Park in Merseyside, England, during the 1990s, named for the Greenall Whitley brewery.
Grosser Preis von Baden
The Grosser Preis von Baden is a Group 1 flat horse race for three-year-olds and up over 2,400 meters at Iffezheim near Baden-Baden, Germany, held annually since 1858.
Group races
Group races are Thoroughbred horse races ranked Group 1, 2, or 3 within the European Pattern race system created in 1971, distinguishing them from Listed races and from the parallel North American Graded stakes system.
Hambletonian 10
Hambletonian 10 (Rysdyk's Hambletonian), 1849–1876, American trotting stallion and foundation sire of the Standardbred breed; sired over 1,300 foals, ancestor of nearly all modern Standardbreds.
Hambletonian Stakes
Hambletonian Stakes: premier American harness race for three-year-old trotters, also called the Hambletonian; first run 1926 at Syracuse, won by Guy McKinney; $1 million Grade 1 event at the Meadowlands since 1981, moving to Harrah's Hoosier Park in 2027.
Harness racing
Harness racing, also called trotting, is Standardbred horse racing at a trot or pace pulling a sulky. Developed from Messenger (1788) and Hambletonian 10; pacers now outnumber trotters four to one.
Harness racing in Australia and New Zealand
Harness racing in Australia and New Zealand is a connected trans-Tasman sport of Standardbred trotting and pacing, sharing horses and the Inter-Dominion championship, first run in 1936.
Harness racing in Sweden
Harness racing in Sweden, also called trotting, is one of Sweden's largest spectator sports, first raced publicly in 1870 and funded through pool betting via ATG.
Harness racing in the United States
Harness racing in the United States is a form of horse racing in which Standardbred horses race at a specified gait, either pacing or trotting.
Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame is a museum in Goshen, New York, that preserves harness racing history and administers the sport's Hall of Fame.
Harness racing track
A harness racing track, or trotting track, is an oval racetrack where horses pull drivers in two-wheeled carts, racing at the trot or pace, usually over one mile.
Harrah's Philadelphia
Harrah's Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack, formerly Harrah's Chester, is a Chester, PA racino with a 5/8-mile limestone harness track partly over the Delaware River; racing opened September 10, 2006, casino January 2007.
Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924–2001), Lord Porchester or "Porchie", was Queen Elizabeth II's racing manager from 1969 to 2001, created the European Pattern race system, chaired Newbury Racecourse, and was known for the 1988 Dick Hern sacking.
Hidalgo (film)
Hidalgo (2004) is a Touchstone adventure film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Viggo Mortensen as Frank T. Hopkins, who rides his mustang in the 3,000-mile Ocean of Fire race across Arabia; its true-story claims were disputed.
Hippodrome
Hippodrome (Greek hippodromos, horse + course): ancient Greek and Roman oval track for horse and chariot races with tiered seating; Roman counterpart the circus; modern sense covers equestrian arenas and theaters, e.g. Hippodrome of Constantinople.
Hippodrome of Constantinople
Hippodrome of Constantinople: Byzantine chariot-racing circus begun under Septimius Severus and completed by Constantine I by 330 AD, modeled on Rome's Circus Maximus, home of the Blues and Greens factions and the Nika Revolt of 532.
Hishi Akebono (ヒシアケボノ)
Hishi Akebono (ヒシアケボノ), American-bred Japanese Thoroughbred (1992, Woodman–Mysteries), won the 1995 Sprinters Stakes G1 and was JRA Best Sprinter & Miler; heaviest JRA G1 winner, later an Umamusume character.
Hishi Amazon
Hishi Amazon (ヒシアマゾン), 1991–2019, American-bred Japanese racehorse by Theatrical out of Katies; won the 1993 Hanshin Sansai Himba Stakes and 1994 Queen Elizabeth 2 Commemorative Cup, champion filly/mare 1993–1995, 10 wins from 20 starts.
Hokko Tarumae (ホッコータルマエ)
Hokko Tarumae (ホッコータルマエ), Japanese Thoroughbred dirt racer foaled 2009 by King Kamehameha; won a then-record 10 Gr.1/Jpn1 dirt races, 2014 JRA Best Dirt Horse, later a stallion.
Hollywood Park Racetrack
Hollywood Park Racetrack, also called the Home of Champions, was an Inglewood, California Thoroughbred track opened June 10, 1938 by Jack L. Warner, home of the Hollywood Gold Cup and first Breeders' Cup, closed December 22, 2013; its land is now SoFi Stadium.
Hong Kong Cup
Hong Kong Cup: Group 1, 2000m turf race for 3yo+ at Sha Tin each December, richest race in Hong Kong at HK$40 million and flagship of the Hong Kong International Races. Romantic Warrior won it four times (2022-2025).
Hong Kong Derby
The Hong Kong Derby is the most prestigious local horse race in Hong Kong, run over 2000 meters at Sha Tin Racecourse by four-year-old Thoroughbreds since 1873.
Horse breeding
Horse breeding: controlled mating of domestic horses (Equus caballus) for riding, racing, draft, and conservation. Domesticated ~5,500 years ago; modern lineage spread from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe ~4,200 years ago; today uses AI, embryo transfer, ICSI, and genetic testing.
Horse racing
Horse racing: sport of running horses at speed, mainly Thoroughbreds on the flat or Standardbreds in harness; ancient Olympic roots, first £40 purse under Richard I, UK industry worth £4.1 billion, US fatality rate 1.23 per 1,000 starts under HISA.
Horse racing in the United States
Horse racing in the United States: Thoroughbred, Standardbred, and Quarter Horse pari-mutuel racing dating to colonial times, home of the Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown, regulated nationally since 2020 by HISA with fatality rates falling to 1.04 per 1,000 starts in 2025.