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Ruffian (horse)

Index Ruffian (horse)

Ruffian (April 17, 1972 – July 7, 1975) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse who won 10 consecutive races, usually by wide margins. [1]

72 relations: Acorn Stakes, American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, Anesthesia, Animal euthanasia, Astoria Stakes, Ballantine Books, Belmont Park, Bessemer Trust, Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Blood-Horse Publications, Bold Ruler, Braulio Baeza, Challedon, Claiborne Farm, Coaching Club American Oaks, Comely Stakes, Corticosteroid, Discovery (horse), Eclipse Award, ESPN Books, Fashion Stakes, Filly, Foolish Pleasure, Frank Y. Whiteley Jr., From Every Stage, Glyndon, Maryland, Hasty Road, Horse length, Horse racing, Jacinto Vásquez, Joan Baez, Kentucky, Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, Kentucky Derby, Linebacker, List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses, Lyn Lifshin, Maryland, Match racing, Mother Goose Stakes, Nasrullah (horse), National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Native Dancer, Nearco, Ogden Mills Phipps, Paris, Kentucky, Phipps family, Polynesian (horse), ..., Revidere, Reviewer (horse), Ruffian (film), Ruffian Stakes, Saratoga Race Course, Sesamoid bone, Shenanigans (horse), Sir Gallahad, Skewball, Sorority Stakes, Spinaway Stakes, Sports Illustrated, Starting gate, Susan Stover, Television film, The Blood-Horse, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Thoroughbred, United States, Veterinary physician, William Nack, Wilmington, Delaware. Expand index (22 more) »

Acorn Stakes

The Acorn Stakes is an American Grade I race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies.

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American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly

The American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing.

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American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly

The American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing.

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American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, formerly known as the Filly Triple Crown, is a set of three horse races in the United States which is open to three-year-old fillies.

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Anesthesia

In the practice of medicine (especially surgery and dentistry), anesthesia or anaesthesia (from Greek "without sensation") is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness.

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Animal euthanasia

Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of putting an animal to death or allowing it to die by withholding extreme medical measures.

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Astoria Stakes

The Astoria Stakes is a long-lived race for two-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run at Belmont Park in early June during the Belmont Stakes carnival.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

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Belmont Park

Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse-racing facility in the northeastern United States, located in just east of the limits. Opened on May 4, 1905, it is operated by the non-profit New York Racing Association, as are Aqueduct and Saratoga Race Course. The group was formed in 1955 as the Greater New York Association to assume the assets of the individual associations that ran Belmont, Aqueduct, Saratoga, and the now-defunct Jamaica Racetrack. Belmont Park is typically open for racing from late April through mid-July (known as the Spring meet), and again from mid-September through late October (the Fall meet). It is widely-known as the home of the Belmont Stakes in early June, regarded as the "Test of the Champion", the third leg of the Triple Crown. Along with Saratoga in Upstate New York, Keeneland and Churchill Downs in Kentucky, and Del Mar and Santa Anita in California, Belmont is considered one of the elite racetracks in North America. The race park's main dirt track has earned the nickname, "the Big Sandy," given its prominent overall dimensions and the deep, sometimes tiring surface. Belmont is also sometimes known as "The Championship Track" because almost every major champion in racing history since the early 20th century has competed on the racecourse – including all of the Triple Crown winners. Belmont hosted its largest crowd in 2004, when 120,139 saw Smarty Jones upset by Birdstone in its Triple Crown bid.

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Bessemer Trust

Bessemer Trust, founded in 1907, is a private, independent office that oversees more than $140 billion for over 2,500 families, foundations, and endowments.

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Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century

In 1999, The Blood-Horse magazine assembled a seven-person panel of distinguished horse racing people: Keeneland racing secretary Howard Battle, Maryland Jockey Club vice president Lenny Hale, Daily Racing Form columnist Jay Hovdey, Sports Illustrated senior writer William Nack, California senior steward Pete Pedersen, Louisville Courier-Journal racing writer Jennie Rees and Gulfstream Park steward Tommy Trotter.

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Blood-Horse Publications

Blood-Horse Publications is an American multimedia publishing house focused on horse-related magazines headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Bold Ruler

Bold Ruler (April 6, 1954 – July 11, 1971) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who was named the 1957 Horse of the Year after a three-year-old campaign that included wins in the Preakness Stakes and Jerome Handicap, in which he defeated fellow Hall of Fame inductees Round Table and Gallant Man.

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Braulio Baeza

Braulio Baeza (born March 26, 1940) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.

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Challedon

Challedon (1936–1958) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Maryland by William L. Brann and Robert S. Castle, he raced under the colors of their Branncastle Farm.

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Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Paris, Kentucky.

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Coaching Club American Oaks

The Coaching Club American Oaks is a race for thoroughbred three-year-old fillies and the second leg of the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing.

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Comely Stakes

The Comely Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York.

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Corticosteroid

Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones.

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Discovery (horse)

Discovery (1931–1958) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Eclipse Award

The Eclipse Award is an American thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century British racehorse and sire, Eclipse.

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ESPN Books

ESPN Books is a publishing company operated by ESPN Started in 2004, ESPN Books has published almost 20 books.

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Fashion Stakes

The Fashion Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies.

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Filly

A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare.

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Foolish Pleasure

Foolish Pleasure (March 23, 1972 – November 2, 1994) was an American bay Thoroughbred race horse who won the 1975 Kentucky Derby.

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Frank Y. Whiteley Jr.

Frank Yewell Whiteley Jr. (January 31, 1915 – May 2, 2008) was a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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From Every Stage

From Every Stage is a live double album recorded by Joan Baez on tour in the summer of 1975.

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Glyndon, Maryland

Glyndon, Maryland is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

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Hasty Road

Hasty Road (1951–1978) was an American thoroughbred racehorse which won the 1954 Preakness Stakes.

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Horse length

A horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Jacinto Vásquez

Jacinto Vásquez (born January 4, 1944 in Panama) is a retired Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky Broodmare of the Year

The Kentucky Broodmare of the Year is selected each year by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Linebacker

A linebacker (LB or backer) is a playing position in American football and Canadian football.

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List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses

The list of leading Thoroughbred racehorses contains the names of undefeated racehorses and other horses that had an outstanding race record in specific categories.

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Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Diane Lifshin is an American poet and teacher.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Match racing

A match race is a race between two competitors, going head-to-head.

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Mother Goose Stakes

The Mother Goose Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

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Nasrullah (horse)

Nasrullah (March 2, 1940 – May 26, 1959) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Ireland and trained in the United Kingdom before becoming a champion sire in both Europe and North America.

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National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers.

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Native Dancer

Native Dancer (March 27, 1950 – November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Grey Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished Thoroughbred racehorses in history and was the first horse made famous through the medium of television.

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Nearco

Nearco (January 24, 1935 – June 27, 1957) was an Italian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse described by Thoroughbred Heritage as "one of the greatest racehorses of the Twentieth Century" and "one of the most important sires of the century." He was unbeaten, winning 14 races at distances from 1000m (5 furlongs) to 3000m (1 mile 7 furlongs), including the Derby Italiano and Grand Prix de Paris.

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Ogden Mills Phipps

Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps (September 18, 1940 – April 6, 2016) was an American financier, Thoroughbred racehorse industry executive, and horse breeder.

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Paris, Kentucky

Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Phipps family

The Henry Phipps family of the United States was founded by Henry Phipps, the son of an English shoemaker who immigrated in the early part of the 19th century to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before settling in Pittsburgh.

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Polynesian (horse)

Polynesian (March 8, 1942 – 1959) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Revidere

Revidere (foaled in 1973 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was voted the 1976 Eclipse Award as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.Her sire was Reviewer, who is best known as the sire of champion filly Ruffian.

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Reviewer (horse)

Reviewer (April 30, 1966 – June 6, 1977) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly Ruffian.

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Ruffian (film)

Ruffian is an American television film that tells the story of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred filly Ruffian who went undefeated until her death after breaking down in a nationally televised match race at Belmont Park on July 6, 1975 against the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure.

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Ruffian Stakes

The Ruffian Stakes is an Grade II American thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares ages three-years-old and up run over a distance of 1 mile on a dirt track at Belmont Park, and formerly at Aqueduct Racecourse and Saratoga Race Course.

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Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course is a thoroughbred horse racing track located on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, with a capacity of 50,000. Opened in 1863, it is often considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the country, but is actually the fourth oldest racetrack in the US (after 3rd oldest Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack, 2nd oldest Fair Grounds Race Course, and oldest Freehold Raceway).

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Sesamoid bone

In anatomy, a sesamoid bone is a bone embedded within a tendon or a muscle.

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Shenanigans (horse)

Shenanigans (March 17, 1963 – 21 May 1977) was an American thoroughbred mare born in Kentucky.

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Sir Gallahad

Sir Gallahad (1920–1949) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and a very important Sire in the United States.

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Skewball

Skewball was the name of an 18th-century British racehorse, most famous as the subject of a broadsheet ballad and folk-song.

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Sorority Stakes

The Sorority Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of September at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey.

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Spinaway Stakes

The Spinaway Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Starting gate

A starting gate also called a starting barrier or starting stalls is a machine used to ensure a fair start to in horse racing and dog racing.

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Susan Stover

Susan Marie Stover is a professor of veterinary anatomy at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and director of the J.D. Wheat Veterinary Orthopedic Research Laboratory.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Blood-Horse

The Blood-Horse is a weekly news magazine published by Blood-Horse Publications that originated in 1916 as a monthly bulletin put out by the Thoroughbred Horse Association.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Veterinary physician

A veterinary physician, usually called a vet, which is shortened from veterinarian (American English) or veterinary surgeon (British English), is a professional who practices veterinary medicine by treating diseases, disorders, and injuries in animals.

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William Nack

William Louis Nack (February 4, 1941 – April 13, 2018)"" - 04.14.18 - Sports Illustrated was an American journalist and author.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffian_(horse)

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