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American Champion Female Turf Horse
The American Champion Female Turf Horse award is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. It is part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to a female horse (filly or mare) for her performance on grass race courses. Until 1978 there was a American Champion Male Turf Horse, Best Turf Horse award, open to both male and female horse. During this time, Dahlia (horse), Dahlia was the only filly voted Best Turf Horse. In 1979 an individual category was created for each of the sexes. Records Most wins: * 2 – Miesque (1987, 1988) * 2 – Flawlessly (1992, 1993) * 2 – Ouija Board (horse), Ouija Board (2004, 2006) * 2 – Goldikova (2009, 2010) * 2 – Tepin (horse), Tepin (2015, 2016) Most wins by a Horse trainer, trainer: * 6 – Chad Brown (horse trainer), Chad Brown (2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) Most wins by an owner: * 4 – Prince Khalid Abdullah, Khalid Abdullah (1996, 1997, 2001, 2005) Honorees References The Eclipse Awards at the Thoroughbred Racin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered " hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit. The Thoroughbred, as it is known today, was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were crossbred with imported Oriental stallions of Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to a larger number of foundation mares of mostly English breeding. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Thoroughbred breed spread throughout the world; they were imported into North America starting in 1730 and into Australia, Europe, Japan and South America during the 19th century. Millions of Thoroughbreds exist today, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loves Only You
Loves Only You ( ja, ラヴズオンリーユー, link=no, foaled 26 March 2016) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed promise as a two-year-old when she won both her races. In the following spring she took the Wasurenagusa Sho before extending her unbeaten run to four by winning the Yushun Himba in record time. She sustained he first defeat in November 2019 when she ran third in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. She failed to win in five starts as a four-year-old in 2020, but returned to her best form in 2021 when she won the Kyoto Kinen, Queen Elizabeth II Cup, the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in the United States and the Hong Kong Cup. She was awarded an Eclipse Award as the American Champion Female Turf Horse for 2021, as well as the JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare of the same year. Background Loves Only You is a bay mare with a short white blaze and a white socks on her left hind and forelegs bred in Hokkaido by Northern Farm. As a yearling in 2017 he was co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Rouget
Jean-Claude Rouget (born 1953 in Normandy) is a French Thoroughbred horse trainer and former jockey A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word "jockey" originated from England and was used to describe the individual .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouget, Jean-Claude 1953 births Living people French jockeys People from Lisieux French horse trainers Sportspeople from Calvados (department) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacelita
Stacelita (foaled 17 April 2006) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Classic winner while based in France and became an Eclipse Award winner when relocated to the United States. Background Stacelita is a dark bay or black mare who was bred in France by Jean-Pierre Joseph Dubois. By leading German sire Monsun, she was out of the stakes-winning mare Soignée by Dashing Blade. Martin Schwartz bought a share in the mare from her breeder in May 2009 and then assumed full ownership in 2010. She was originally trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, and later by Chad Brown. Racing career Stacelita began her career with six straight wins including the Group I Prix Saint-Alary, Prix de Diane and Prix Vermeille, the latter as a result of the disqualification of Dar Re Mi. She finished her three-year-old campaign with a seventh-place finish in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe behind Sea the Stars after setting the early pace. She began 2010 by finishing fourth in the Prix d'Ispahan behind Goldik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin S
__NOTOC__ The Martin S was a two-seat observation seaplane produced by the Glenn L. Martin Company in the United States in 1915.Taylor 1989, 635 Designed along the same general lines as the preceding Model T,''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', 2432 it was a largely conventional two-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. The fuselage was not directly attached to the lower wings, but was carried on struts in the interplane gap. The undercarriage consisted of a single large pontoon below the fuselage and outrigger floats near the wingtips. The Model S was 23-year-old Donald Douglas' first and only design for the Martin company, and it set three world altitude records and a flight duration record that stood for three years."The Early Years of Douglas Aircraft, the 1920s" Six, possibly fourteen, of these aircraft were operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps,Aero Files states six, and Baugher corroborates their serial numbers (S.C. 56-59, 94-95), whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad C
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (55.1%) and Christianity (41.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad. Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagora (horse)
Zagora (foaled March 13, 2007) is a retired French Thoroughbred racehorse with graded stakes wins on two continents and two countries. Defeating horses like G1 Gamely Stakes winner Marketing Mix, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Tapitsfly, European champion The Fugue, American Oaks winner Lady of Shamrock, Matriarch Stakes winner Stormy Lucy, and Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Nahrain. Racing career European career Zagora had 9 starts in her home country of France, winning four times including victories in the Prix Vanteaux, and the Prix de Psyché. 2011: four-year-old season For Zagora's 4-year-old season, she was imported to the United States. She made five starts and won once in the Grade I Diana Stakes. She also ran in the Jenny Wiley Stakes but did not run in the Breeders' Cup. 2012: five-year-old season As a 5 year old Zagora won both the Hillsborough Stakes, and the Endeavour Stakes. After a 5th in the Jenny Wiley she won the Gallorette Handicap. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stoute
Sir Michael Ronald Stoute (born 22 October 1945) is a Barbadian British Thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing. Career Stoute, whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972. His first win as a trainer came on 28 April 1972 when Sandal, a horse owned by Stoute's father, won at Newmarket Racecourse in England.Sir Michael Stoute: NTRA Profile , ntra.com, retrieved 20 February 2010. Since then, he has gone on to win races all over the globe, including victories in the , the |
Dank (horse)
Dank (foaled 6 March 2009) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed useful form in Europe as a three and four-year-old, winning the Atalanta Stakes, Dahlia Stakes and Kilboy Estate Stakes. The filly showed improved form when campaigned in the United States in the second half of 2013, winning the Beverly D. Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and being voted American Champion Female Turf Horse. Background Dank is a bay mare with a white blaze bred by London Thoroughbred Services. She was sired by Dansili, whose other progeny have included the leading middle distance winners Harbinger, The Fugue and Rail Link. Her dam Masskana, won 3 races in France and became a successful broodmare, producing several winners including Eagle Mountain. Throughout her racing career, Dank was owned by James Wigan and trained by Michael Stoute at his Freemason Lodge Stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. Racing career 2011: two-year-old season Dank made her racecourse debut in a seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayatthespa
Dayatthespa (foaled February 17, 2009) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. As a three-year-old in 2012 she won her first five races including the Herecomesthebride Stakes, Appalachian Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. After winning two races in an abbreviated 2013 season she reached her peak as a five-year-old in 2014, winning the Yaddo Stakes, the First Lady Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Background Dayatthespa is a chestnut mare with a narrow white blaze bred in New York by Castellare di Cracchiolo Stable, Cracchiolo & Goldsher. Her sire City Zip, a half-brother to Ghostzapper, showed his best form as a two-year-old in 2000 when he won the Hopeful Stakes and dead-heated for first place in the Belmont Futurity. Her dam, M'Lady Doc was a descendant of the broodmare Friar's Carse, making her a distant relative of Sword Dancer, Hail To All and Rachel Alexandra. The filly was sent to the 2010 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred sale, and bough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Casse
Mark E. Casse (born February 14, 1961) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include 2015 American champion turf mare Tepin and Canadian Horses of the Year Sealy Hill (2007), Uncaptured (2012), Lexie Lou (2014), Catch A Glimpse (2015) and Wonder Gadot. He has won thirteen Sovereign Awards for outstanding trainer in Canada and has been the leading trainer at Woodbine Racetrack 14 times. In 2019, he won his first American Classic with War of Will in the Preakness Stakes. Background Casse was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 14, 1961, to Norman Casse. He grew up in Ocala, Florida where his father ran Cardinal Hill Farm and was one of the founders of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company. His brothers are John and Justin Casse, who are also involved in the racing industry. At age eight, Casse accompanied his father to the spring meet of the original Woodbine Racetrack. In 1973, father and son traveled to Churchill Downs and saw Secretariat win the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Eli
Lady Eli (foaled February 2, 2012 in Kentucky) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the American Champion Female Turf Horse of 2017. She first came to national attention when she won the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She extended her record to a perfect six wins from six starts in the 2015 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes but then stepped on a nail on her way back to the barn, which led to a life-threatening case of laminitis. After a lengthy recovery, Lady Eli finished second in her August 2016 return to the racetrack, then won the Flower Bowl Stakes in October. With her 2017 wins in the Gamely Stakes and Diana Stakes, she won at least one Grade I race in each of her four racing seasons. Background Bred by Runnymede Farm, Lady Eli is by Divine Park out of Sacre Coeur, both of whom were also bred by Runnymede. Martin O'Dowd of Runnymede Farm would later say: " ady Eliwas very independent, but also easy to live with. She was a big, strong filly. As a yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
