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Parimutuel betting
Parimutuel betting (pari mutuel) is pool betting for horse and greyhound racing: all wagers are pooled, a takeout is deducted, and winners share pro rata; odds are set by the pool, not a bookmaker, unlike fixed-odds betting.
Parx Casino and Racing
Parx Casino and Racing, Bensalem, PA; formerly Keystone Racetrack and Philadelphia Park; thoroughbred track plus Category 1 casino under Greenwood Gaming; home of the $1 million Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion Stakes.
Pat Eddery
Pat Eddery (1952–2015), Irish flat jockey and trainer; 4,632 British winners, second only to Gordon Richards; 11-time British champion jockey; three Derbys, four Arcs, Dancing Brave 1986.
Pay the Butler
Pay the Butler was a Kentucky-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Europe, the United States, and Japan, winning the 1988 Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse as a 14.9 outsider.
Penny Chenery
Penny Chenery (Helen Bates Chenery, 1922–2017), American thoroughbred owner and breeder who ran Meadow Stable, owned 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, syndicated him for a record $6.08 million, and led the TOBA.
Peter V'landys
Peter V'landys AM, Australian sports administrator: Executive Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission from 2026, ARLC chairman from 2019, and Racing NSW chief executive 2004-2026; secured the $5.3 billion NRL media rights deal and created The Everest.
Phalaenopsis (ファレノプシス) (horse)
Phalaenopsis (ファレノプシス), 1995 Japanese mare by Brian's Time out of Catequil; won 1998 Oka Sho, Shuka Sho and 2000 Queen Elizabeth II Cup; not the 2020s namesake.
Phar Lap
Phar Lap (1926–1932), New Zealand-born champion racehorse owned in Australia, won 37 of 51 races including the 1930 Melbourne Cup; died in California in 1932, with hide, skeleton, and 6.35 kg heart displayed in Melbourne, Wellington, and Canberra.
Point-to-point (steeplechase)
Point-to-point (pointing) is amateur steeplechase racing over fences for hunting horses and amateur riders, run November–June on temporary countryside courses in Britain and Ireland; rooted in the 1752 Buttevant–Doneraile steeple-to-steeple race.
Potoooooooo
Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os (1773–November 1800), an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire by Eclipse; won 34 races, sired 172 winners including Derby winner Waxy, and got his name from a stable boy's misspelling of "Potatoes".
Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes, also called the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans, is an American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, first run in 1873.
Prince of Wales Stakes
The Prince of Wales Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred race for three-year-olds foaled in Canada, run on dirt at Fort Erie Race Track in Ontario.
Prix d'Amérique
Prix d'Amérique (Prix d'Amérique Legend Race), world championship of harness trotting, run last Sunday of January over 2,700 m at Paris-Vincennes; first run 1920, won by Pro Patria; €1,000,000 purse, up to 18 runners aged 4-11.
Prix de Diane
Prix de Diane (Prix de Diane Longines), French Group 1 flat race for 3-year-old fillies over 2,100 m at Chantilly, created 1843 as the French Oaks; €1,000,000 purse, record 2'03"77 (Trêve, 2013), 2026 winner Diamond Necklace.
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe: Group 1 flat horse race over 2,400 m at ParisLongchamp, first run 1920, first Sunday of October, €5m purse, Europe's championship race.
Prix La Haye Jousselin
Prix La Haye Jousselin, French Group 1 steeple-chase at Auteuil, Paris, 5,500 m for 5-year-olds and up, run each November. Founded 1880 as Prix de la Croix de Berny; Al Capone II won it seven times, 1993–1999.
Rachael Blackmore
Rachael Blackmore, Irish jump jockey from Killenaule, County Tipperary; first female winner of the Grand National (Minella Times, 2021), 2021 Cheltenham top jockey, 2022 Gold Cup winner; retired May 2025 with 575 winners.
Racing silks
Racing silks, called colors in Britain and Australia, are the registered jacket, sleeve, and cap designs jockeys wear to identify each horse's owner in a race.
Racing Stripes
Racing Stripes is a 2005 American family sports comedy directed by Frederik Du Chau about a zebra raised on a Kentucky farm who trains to race against horses.
Randwick Racecourse
Randwick Racecourse (Royal Randwick), Sydney thoroughbred racing venue since 1833, ATC headquarters, home of The Championships and the $20 million TAB Everest, with 20 Group 1 races yearly.
Red Desire (レッドディザイア)
Red Desire (レッドディザイア) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, foaled in 2006, who won the 2009 Shuka Sho and the 2010 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 in Dubai.
Red Pollard
Red Pollard (John Pollard, 1909-1981), Canadian-born jockey and Seabiscuit's regular rider, 18 wins in 30 mounts including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap; blind in one eye, Jockeys' Guild founder.
Red Rum
Red Rum (foaled 1965) was a British steeplechaser, the only horse to win the Grand National three times (1973, 1974, 1977), second in 1975 and 1976, trained on Southport beach by Ginger McCain for Noel Le Mare.
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, known as Reggie, was an American Vanderbilt family sportsman and leading horseman who inherited $10 million at 21 and was the father of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Robert J. Frankel
Robert J. (Bobby) Frankel (1941-2009) was a Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred trainer from Brooklyn; five-time Eclipse Award winner, 3,654 wins, $227.9 million earnings, 2003 record 25 Grade 1 wins; namesake of the unbeaten racehorse Frankel.
Robert Sangster
Robert Edmund Sangster (1936–2004), British racehorse owner-breeder and Vernons pools heir; with Vincent O'Brien and John Magnier built Coolmore, won the Derby with The Minstrel and Golden Fleece, and paid a record $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer.
Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith (Robyn Astaire), American jockey born 1942, first woman to win a stakes race (Paumanok Handicap, 1973); retired 1975; married Fred Astaire in 1980.
Romantic Warrior (浪漫勇士) (horse)
Romantic Warrior (浪漫勇士) is a retired Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Hong Kong from 2021 to 2026, winning 24 of 31 starts including a record 15 Group 1 races.
Ron Turcotte
Ron Turcotte (1941-2025), Canadian Hall of Fame jockey from Drummond, New Brunswick, rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, won 3,032 races, and was paralyzed in a 1978 Belmont Park fall.
Roosevelt Raceway
Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island harness racing track; opened as a 1937 auto track (Vanderbilt Cup), pioneered nighttime harness racing in 1940 under George Morton Levy, peaked in the 1960s-1970s, closed July 1988.