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How to find race horse history? ›

Finding the race record: Once you know your horse's Jockey Club name, you can enter it at Equibase and access the horse's full race record. You'll be able to find sire/dam information, birthdate, race record and earnings, and detailed results of every race that horse ever ran.

ARCADIA, Calif. -- White Abarrio won the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic by a length Saturday, putting trainer Rick Dutrow back on top months after his 10-year exile from the sport ended.

For free entries, results, charts and other information, use the Horse Search feature at equibase.com, the Thoroughbred industry's official database for racing information.

The Dosage Index is a mathematical figure used by breeders of Thoroughbred race horses, and sometimes by bettors handicapping horse races, to quantify a horse's ability, or inability, to negotiate the various distances at which horse races are run. It is calculated based on an analysis of the horse's pedigree.

There are also several online resources such as the Horse & Pony Database that allow members to upload and trace their horse's family history. Even just establishing the full name of your horse is invaluable as most UK studs and breeders have a registered prefix which is added to horses they've bred.

There has been one female horse to win the Breeders' Cup Classic and that was Zenyatta in 2009. The undefeated filly, jockeyed by Mike E. Smith, won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park.

The LONGINES BREEDERS' CUP CLASSIC (GI) is a 1 1/4-mile race for 3-year-olds and up. The race carries a guaranteed purse of $6 million, including travel awards.

Practical Move, a contender in the $1 million Dirt Mile, collapsed on the track after a gallop Tuesday. Breeders' Cup officials said his death was due to “a cardiac event.” A required necropsy will determine the official cause.

Jockeys must be at least 16 years old. There is no set height or weight requirement, but the majority of jockeys do not weigh more than 125 pounds, many even less, with height (usually around 5 feet tall) or proportionate to their weight.

Diane Crump, the first female jockey, broke horse racing's gender barrier, Hialeah, Florida, 1969. In 2022 more than a quarter of all jockeys—27.2 percent—were female.

Who decides which jockey rides which horse? ›

Who determines which jockey rides a horse? - Quora. The trainer, the agent, the jockey himself/herself. Jockeys base out of particular tracks or regions, and they usually have agents (or work out of a small track with a jockey colony the trainers all know.) The better the rider, the more they get to pick and choose.

A Coat of Many Colors

Grey and roan are also uncommon, while white is extremely rare. Nearly 90 percent of all Thoroughbreds registered with The Jockey Club are a variation of brown – either bay or dark bay or brown. The other official colors are chestnut, black, grey, roan, and white.

CD indicates a horse has won over course and distance. BF stands for beaten favourite and indicates a horse was favourite for a race, but did not win.

“Horses usually seek out other horses, so alert your neighbors and ask if he's in their pasture. If you're along an interstate or main road, alert the state police and animal control. “Check wooded areas where he might not be in plain view,” she adds. “Make sure he hasn't fallen through the ice in a pond.

Researching Horse Pedigrees

Some breed associations charge for this service. You also might be able to search the name of your horse yourself on the breed registry site. If information on it exists, you'll often find a photo, names of previous owners, the horse's pedigree, and show records.

Check the records

Organisations such as British Eventing publish competition records on their websites or allow you to access them for a small fee, so go online to see if your horse has a listing, or write to or call their offices.

Sign in to your USEF Account and navigate to your horse's page. Click on the "Details & Results" tile then "Horse Report" at the top of the page. You can also Search Horses then click on "Horse Report" to pull up the horse's full competition report.