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1999 Paul Mellon, art patron/horse owner, dies at 91
1998 Jeanette Nolan, actress, The Horse Whisperer, dies at 86 1997 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine 1996 Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995, dies of rare blood disorder at age 36 1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song 1994 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country 1994 Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78 1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist 1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse 1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont 1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances 1993 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69 1992 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park 1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races 1992 Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87 1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse 1991 Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou 1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races 1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled 1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race 1989 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence 1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album 1988 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs 1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood 1986 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita 1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct 1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge 1984 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood 1984 White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races 1982 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 1981 Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies 1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million 1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England 1979 Mr Ed, talking horse, dies 1978 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse 1974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom 1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m 1971 Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73 1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress, Dark Horse, SFW, Robert's daughter 1970 Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973 1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires 1966 Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66 1965 Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25 1965 Melita Ruhn, born in Romania, horse vaulter 1980 Olympics bronze 1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33 1964 Karen Straker, horse show jumper 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races 1961 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79 1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races 1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse 1959 Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995 1958 Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61 1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 1956 Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track 1954 Sarah Lundy, born in America, horse trainer, won Sam F. Davis Stakes, Tampa Bay Downs, 1993, first female trainer to saddle a horse in the Belmont Stakes 1954 John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others 1953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnast, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle 1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run 1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore 1945 Mikhail Voronin, born in U.S.S.R., horse vault gymnast, 1968 Olympics gold 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) 1944 Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64 1943 Liz Edgar, horse show jumper 1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens 1940 Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer 1938 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase 1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper 1935 Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30 1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 1933 Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisconsin, NFL fullback for the Baltimore Colts 1932 Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse 1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race 1931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London 1930 Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park 1930 George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees, ship builder/horse owner 1928 Brooklyn Supreme, born in Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse, 1450 kg 1927 Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1926 Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies 1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse 1918 Peter O'Sullevan, born in Ireland, horse racing commentator 1916 Alain Bernardin, impressario, Crazy Horse Saloon 1913 Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse 1913 Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse 1912 Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner, Native Dancer 1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1908 Richard Caldicot, born in London, England, actor, Horse's Mouth 1907 Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnast 1948 Olympics gold 1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies 1903 Hans C. Branner, Danish writer, Toys, Horse Rider 1903 Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables 1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider) 1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1899 Billy Rose, theatrical producer, Diamond Horse Show 1898 Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer, White Horse 1897 Teddy Hart, New York City, actor, 3 Men on a Horse 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate 1892 Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw 1889 Buck Jones, Charles F Gebhart, U.S. actor, War Horse 1889 Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted 1883 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden) 1882 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer, Citation, Whirlaway 1879 Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers 1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km 1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus 1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground 1877 Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race 1864 Horse tramway at the Hague, opens 1861 Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War 1859 Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners 1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1849 Hambletonian, Chester, New York, greatest standardbred horse 1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide 1833 Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo 1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe 1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) 1831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track 1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore) 1809 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England 1808 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies 1789 Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 1776 St. Leger horse race run for 1st time 1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing 1668 1st horse race in America takes place |
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