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  • how do you know which horse is which?, they all looks the same

  • Certainly not the best race horses in the world by a long way.

    Better to have just US horses and say so, and not claim that they are the best in the world, as you have failed badly in that respect by ignoring the best from other countries.

  • Wheres Ruffian?

  • @MrItaliano1900 So you say we only like outlr horses in America, but all of the horse YOU think are the best are from where you are from, so dont insult us then do the same thing you said we do......

  • how many of these horses were not from america??

  • Northern Dancer,Ruffian and so on......????????

  • @TheTia1973 IN TORONTO NOEL TURCOTE JOCKED TRINED IT IN FIST RACE WON BY 1OO FEETS PAIED 99.00 $ FOR 2.00$ ONNER TORONTO EPY TELLER

  • How can you not include Seattle Slew???

  • this paint filly is Man o' War's great grandaughter. i named her Heavenly Holly because she really is! funny thing she likes to rear like old Big Red. she knows she's something special, just my little 'punkin'.

  • Phar Lap? 

  • Northern Dancer?

  • @secretariat888 True, i love her jockey though! And @johnofohu123 Did you watch thay race? She wa sooo far behind and csme up a nose short! Ya she.realky sucks...? She was AWESOME!

  • Kincsem (Hungarian for "My Precious" or "My Treasure") (1874-1887) was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts. Foaled in Tápiószentmárton, Hungary in 1874, she is a national icon, and is revered in other parts of the world, too. Over four seasons she won all her races against both female and male company at various race tracks across Europe, a record that's still unbeaten.

  • Don't forget Sham, whose only misfortune was being born in the same year as Secretariat.

  • This is an amazing video :) I think horses that should be mentioned are Sham and Riva Ridge.Sham may have been overshadowed by Secretariat,but he was amazing. Riva Ridge my have lost his last few races,but he was amazing to. But amazing video :)

  • Ruffian, indeed. Count Fleet? War Admiral?

  • WHERES PHAR LAP DUDE???

  • @dickran2142battle horsey heaven i believe!

  • to all those who say ruffian sucks, she is the standard in the sport, of which ALL great females that came after her are compared to!

    Ruffian was never compared to anyone! save secretariat!

    after landaluce died, there was an article reading "landaluce was compared to ruffian, ruffian was compared to no one, because there had never been a female as big and as fast"

  • Sad you didn't include Phar Lap, you can now update this video and add our Black Caviar

  • How do you forget the best of all! ( Ruffian)

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  • @johnofohu123

    ...and then you woke up, right?

  • @westinniles Shut your mouth asscream!

  • Does anyone know in what year where aluminium horseshoes introduced into American throughbred racing (which allowed the horses to run faster) and also what the speed advantage was?

  • Not only Ruffian but where the hell is Native Dancer? Father in one way or another of about 50% of the horses listed. 20 for 21 Very good video though overall. THANKS

  • i agree...and what about Ruffian??

  • What about Kincsem? Eclipse? Kincsem has a much better record than any of these horses. Raced in more countries also. None of these horses would even exist without Eclipse. Many of them have won the Eclipse Award - the premier award for horse racing in America.

  • A good video but the title should be The Best Racehorses of the USA, but good selection all the same but still alot of great horses left out like Makybe Diva 3-Time Melbourne Cup winner 2003.04,05 and the other horses mentioned below this comment.

  • @Eyevan73 . I agree... But I am sorry to me personally PHAR LAP will always be better than Makybe Diva. I have had heated arguments with my partner on this one. If you could go back in time and bring Phar Lap here and train him from the start the way she was. And with the weight for age fairness she had then i am sorry he would kick her tail. Try training her the way he was and race with weight like him and you would have a very different horse

  • Still waiting for Phar Lap, Carbine, Makybe Diva, Sunline....!

  • red rum is the best ever

  • Questi sono i tuoi cavalli preferiti,non sono i grandi campioni della storia.

    Northen Dancer, Ministreel, Nearco, Ribot, Shergar .....ecc.

    Where is?

  • Honest Pleasure, Foolish Pleasure?

  • did you steal Shergar ?

  • Gamely, Gallant Bloom, Shuvee?

  • where is RIBOT the strongest horse of all time ???!!! Your video is shit!

  • the best horse to ever race was ribot

  • @vvssitic Ruffian !

  • barbaro and fusichi peg and gulch, java gold, johanasburg, officer?? this is insulting

  • you forgot Ruffian

  • @TheKhafre

    you mean that filly that stayed in New York and New Jersey all her life?

  • Secretariat could have pssibly beaten any horse on his day,grass or dirt,Sea Bird quality,so many to mention,but surely Ribot was up there.

  • @SugarRay1985 I gotta say Ruffian would beat Secretariat so would Phar Laps but mostly Ruffian she has the best records beaten other then a dumb triple crown.

  • makybe diva and Phar lap were the two greatest thoroughbread racers of all time

  • @siwelleino Ruffian and Phar Laps

  • what about NORTHERN DANCER canadian great race horse ????????

  • good video, though I can think of more that I would add to that list such as Phar Lap, Ruffian, Makybe Diva, Sham,

  • Nice. Enjoyed it. Thank you. educational :-)

  • Wheres native dancer? Did I miss it?

  • Where's Sham ? :(

  • Thank you, as a horse racing fan for the fantastic pictures of so many wonderful horses some of whom have been lost in time. Your time and effort were very much appreciated by me personally. Again , Thank You

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  • THUMBS UP!!!!

  • You failed the moment Ruffian was not in the video

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing Can't rate a filly who only beat fillies, foolish. P

  • @Icyhotboo cant rate a filly who only beat fillies? how about rate a filly that won her maiden by 15 lengths under a hand ride and in track record time, rate a filly that set or equlaed track and/or stakes records every time she raced, rate a filly that was only whipped in one race, rate a filly that was in the lead at every pole in every race, rate a filly that led wire to wire and was never behind in a race. rate a filly that won by over 5 lengths in all but 2 races!

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing Rating Rufian with 10 races against fillies is a diservice to other great horses who had their careers cut short such as , Barbaro, Kuai King, Danzig, Graustark, Hoist The Flag, etc. No disrespect her potential was unlimited bu so was that of those I mentioned.

  • @Icyhotboo did any of those COLTS do what ruffian did? the only thing she didnt do was beat secretariats 1 1/2mile record! but she did have a faster quater run in hers then sec did in his!

    i seriously dislike you!

    every video i go on, when i mention ruffian you always find some way to tear her down, and i dont give a damn what you say now because ive seen what you have said to me before and what you have said about ruffian so just back off! i am not going to waste my time on you!

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing Each one of them ran faster than her. Please don't forget she was only a filly these were great Colts! Danzig, Graustark, Hoist The Flag would have easily been triple crown winneers. Danzig alone cost $350,000 in 1977 as a weanling. These were much better than her, sorry but thats a fact.

  • @Icyhotboo much better? i repeat: how about rate a filly that won her maiden by 15 lengths under a hand ride and in track record time, rate a filly that set or equlaed track and/or stakes records every time she raced, rate a filly that was only whipped in one race, rate a filly that was in the lead at every pole in every race, rate a filly that led wire to wire and was never behind in a race. rate a filly that won by over 5 lengths in all but 2 races!

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing In reality she only beat fillies. What more can be said. Could have, should have , would have, but she didn't beat even ONE colt!!!!!

  • @Icyhotboo Just cuse she raced all fillies doens't mean she sucks cause if she beat 2 of secretariats records in a mile and mile 1/2 thats consider the greatest and zenyatta sucks period she lost to a bad colt aka blame and he was not to good ever but ruffian raced against a colt that was pretty well he won the derby which she would of won if she didn't hurt her leg .

  • @johnofohu123 Hey Zenyatta was great. She lost to Blame because her jockey held her back to long, it wasnt her fault. She was a great

  • @secretariat888 agreed-i cried at the effort, the reaction of the fans, and for Mike's words. heard any news about her baby on the way?

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing Sour grapes, go away!

  • @RuffianQueenOfRacing Sour grapes again...

  • @Icyhotboo poor little baby, dont you know that sour grapes dont taste good! get lost!

  • You failed at this by alot my friend :P

  • @johnofohu123 Any time you endeavor to persevere you succede!

  • Horses have to be put in distance and surface to be evaluated.

    The worlds greatest miler=Frankel.Greatest steeplechase= Red Rum.

    If American horses come to the U.K and run on grass they may get stuffed.

    as it has been proved in the past.

    My Favourite horse is the one I win lots of money on and that would be Brigadier Gerard.

  • where is the best of the best Red Rum????? Red Rum is probably the most famous racehorse the world has ever seen. Everyone knows his name, whether a racing enthusiast or a once a year Aintree Grand National punter.

  • @mrpryce1 only because of Stephen King. Other than that he was a footnote in history.

  • @Icyhotboo u are having a joke Stephen King has nothing to do with Red Rum... Red Rum was a racehorse who achieved an unmatched historic treble when he won the Aintree Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, and also came second in the two intervening years. As well as his unprecedented record in the world-famous steeplechase (he fell only once in over 100 races) how can this grate horse not be in this video? lol.. u can look it up if u like no horse has come close to going the this Red Rum did.

  • @mrpryce1 The epitaph on Red Rums grave reads "Respect this place / this hallowed ground / a legend here / his rest has found / his feet would fly / our spirits soar / he earned our love for evermore" RIP

  • He was foaled in 1965 and trained on the Southport sands by Ginger McCain. Red Rum won the 1973, 1974 and 1977 Grand Nationals and was runner-up in 1975 and 1976 - an unparalleled record.

    Red Rum, died in 1995 at the age of 30 and is buried near the winning post at Aintree. This is his story, a tale of courage and determination. ?

  • some of these horses dont belong on this list

  • Assembly looks funny?

  • Round Table!??!

  • zenyatta and ruffian

  • @alicorenee I love Zenyatta! She should definitely be in here!

  • ...phar lap?

  • Beautiful photos - thanks for posting. Where is Ruffian?

  • Chi ha fatto questa classifica non vede oltre il suo naso.Lasciare Ribot fuori, vuole dire , capire poco di cavalli.

  • @Giuseppee62 Gande! Hai perfettamente ragione... Ma si vede che non vale niente perchè è Italiano e non Americano. Fosse stato dell'America avrebbero fatto minimo trenta flm! XDD

  • Secretariat is way better than man o' war don't get me wrong War is cool but secretariat is awesome

  • @ponygirl23453678 LMAO it's funny mwo is amazing he won not just american races my friend but he was the best other then ruffian killing Secretariat but baack in the day when mwo was around they had different race times for the derby preakness and belmont

  • This needs more European turf horses!

    Also this is only flat horses!! Seen as though this is only flat ill say...

    Where is Sea The Stars, Dancing Brave, Nashwan, Nijinsky, Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Lammtarra, Yeats, Tudor Minstrel, Oh So Sharp, Giant's Causeway, Harbinger, Ouija Board, Youmzain, Eclipse, Sakhee, Petite Etoile, Pinza, Troy, Dr Devious, 'Ard Patrick, Beeswing, Flying Childers, Kris Kin, Dylan Thomas, Hyperion, Goldikova, Zarkava and Diomed

  • it says horses of the world, but where are the australian horses, especially Phar Lap and Tulloch from the past and more recently Makybe Diva, the majority of these horses are American who raced only on dirt when Phar Lap won in both Australia and in Mexico

  • FAILED Ruffian should be in there and LOTS more

  • What about Zennyatta... the first mare to ever win the b(reeder's cup and what about Phar lap?

    It's not the same without them. :(

  • I am so sorry...But where is Ruffian?

  • @Katjaa5 She and Ribot ;)

    They are absolutely the best evar <3

  • When are people going to realise how good Lammtarra was . To win the Epsom Derby in record time on his first run of the season in amazing , then go on to win KG and ARC

  • finally someone put Gulch!!(: where's Native Dancer? oh and if anyone has facebook, Gulch finally has his own page(:

  • These are my top 5 horses in the world ..ever! And yest they are all Australian! 1) Makybe Diva 2) Might & Power 3) Sunline 4) Black Caviar 5) So You Think 6 Phar Lap 7) Lonhro 8) Zabeel 9 Northerly 10) Octagonal
  • @danielmy08 there r 10 here, but i would argue that Phar Lap should be higher than So You Think and on terms with the Diva. But where is Tulloch and Carbine?

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  • No offence but look at Phar Lap and then put him on here. Unbeatable!

  • Missed out Red Rum

  • that is the most insulting list i have ever seen. too many ridiculous things to mention but did you ever hear of SEATTLE SLEW...NOT AS ACCOMPLISHED AS OFFICER I GUESS?

  • I agree, where's Nearco, Alleged, Makyvi Diva, Ribot, carbine etc. why is it that Youtube is full of people that put up their best of all time and only ever include horses sports teams etc from the USA? geez all the rest of us must be missing something, or is it that people there live in an insulated world?

  • WHERE IS NEARCO? WHERE IS RIBOT?

  • yous forgot a lot of great racers, what about RUFFIAN, CARBINE, PHAR LAP and EIGHT BELLES!!! where are they?

  • I think if someone was to make a video of the top horses, from the last hundred years, it would probaly go for an hour or so. There is so many more deserving horses to be included.

  • I THINK YOU SHOULD DO YOUR HOMEWORK BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • WHAT ABOUT RUFFIAN AND ZENYATTA AND RACHAEL ALEXANDER OR BIG BROWN!!!! U missed alot of great horses. Bur I still liked it... kind of

  • Phar Lap...

  • Best Mate Was Also A Very Successful Racehorse! (RIP)

  • I liked it and the only reason i diddent love it is HOW COULD YOU FORGET RUFFIAN SHE IS THE BEST OF THEM ALLL RUFFIAN DESREVES TO BE IN THER TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP RUFFIAN I WONT EVER FORGET YOU. also what about eight bells she was a AWSOME racehorse to. you forgot to VERY important horses ; [

  • umm yeah..

    they are all great BUT HOW THE HELL COULD YOU FORGET RUFFIAN!

    SHES THE GREATEST FILLY EVER TO SET FOUR HOOFS ON A RACE TRACK!

  • wat about ruffian?how could you forget her

  • You forgot Ruffian, she was the best filly EVER!!!!

  • wtf wat about ruffian she was awesome

  • What no Phar Lap or Makybe Diva! There was another Australian horse that could be added to your list, KingstonTown, look him up.

  • Alysheba? John Henry? Ruffian? Genuine Risk? Black Gold? Easy Goer? Sunday Silence? Makybe Diva? Kingmambo? Mr. Prospector? Seattle Slew?........

  • where's ruffian? the best filly ever!

  • It's funny the debate generated whenever someone publishes a "best of" anything. You should rename this though... best of the northern hemisphere ;)

  • don't you know RIBOT.. i'm really sorry for you

  • How bout Northern Dancer?

  • Interesting list - Forego is my life time favorite! Nice to see Risen Star; big horse that needed more time to fill out, if it had run as four year old I think we would be taking about on of the all time greats. Since this is a best in the world list (made in 2007) I would have liked to see Japan's Deep Impact and Australia's Makybe Diva. Check them out; Deep Impact w. rec. at 3200meters - held speed over distance better than any horse I've seen in years; Makybe Diva - mare - 3 Melbournes.

  • whats this song called?

  • secretariat is my horse my horse k i miss you and love you secretariat rest in peace you will be in my heart forever

  • Where is John Henry, he realy belongs in this group and Ruffian

  • Inaccurate information. The racing history chart displayed by/under Citation is actually that of Secretariat.

  • POOR CHOICES. WHAT ABOUT ARKLE WINNER OF 3 IN A ROW CHELTEHAM GOLD CUPS. AND NIJINSKY LAST WINNER OF EUROPEAN TRIPLE CROWN [2000 GUINEAS.EPSOM DERBY .& ST LEGAR . 1970 BOTH TRAINED IN IRELAND

  • they are missing phar lap,eight bells,sunline ,and ruffian

  • they are missing phar lap,sunline

  • Northern Dancer should be there he was the greatest sire of the 20th century and alot of these horses have his bloodline in them like 80% of the horses that race today :}

  • i met Tiznow!

  • Ruffian babyy ♥ She is top of the list defo

  • where is carbine???

  • @psssssssssssssssssst Yup., I reckon if americans went back over their breeding records they would fimd almost every great horse they wail about descended from Carbine!

  • @psssssssssssssssssst no carbine, no phar lap! not even Makybe Diva!!!!

  • Ruffian, I love her wish you'd have added her..my favourite of all.

  • Where's Seattle Slew? Or Ruffian? This is an older video but come on! Those horses were fantastic! Oh and I LOVE BARBARO!!! He's my baby!

  • what bout Ruffian?

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  • phar lap should definitely be there...and if you put fusaichi  pegasus, then Skip Away should be there as well.

  • in this video i saw man o war, secretariat,seabiscuit,barbaro­,danzing,fanstic light,forego,fuisachi pegasus

  • I reckon Makybe Diva should also have a spot on this list, since she is the only horse to win the Melbourne Cup three years in a row.

  • Phar Lap won 37 races from 51 starts, but in saying that consider this, he was notoriously slow to becoming great winning only 1 of his first 9 starts and not even placing in the other 8!!! the rest is history 33 from his last 35, and then theres the history many Americans don't know about, this horse was handicapped like no other horse in history, it was the entire racing commission against him, assassination attempts , ect i believe greatness also comes from longevity

  • What about Seattle Slew,Phar Lap, AP Indy, and not to mention the great John Henry and Man O War and Ruffian?

  • There seem to be some Great horses of the World missing....Ribot, Phar Lap, Sun Line, Sea Bird, Makybe Diva and some So So horses included.

  • In my opinion,Ruffian should be in this video...

  • @10493929 Yes! that's what makes these videos so fun, there are so many great horses to pick your favorites from. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, though being a HUGE distaff fan I have to applaud all the fillies you listed. On the topic of great mares.. RIP Flanders. No one could ever outrun or outgame her!

  • were the heck was phar lap he's a legend

  • what about the great sunline she was out of this world....

  • that is so not cool secretariat should be at the top he is the best!!!!

  • Pharlap............No 1...........

  • out ofall te people who had a say you are right PHAR LAP NUMBER 1

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  • my phylosophy is tht any horse tht can win a graded stakes race deserves to be considerd a great horse tht is hard not saying their champions but they still won a graded stakes race tht is somthing

  • Best racehorse? Probably the mighty Zenyatta. Don't forget harness horses like Greyhound, Dan Patch and Hambletonian too. Also, Cardigan Bay was probably bigger than Phar Lap in New Zealand. Phar Lap flopped in the US, whereas Cardigan Bay kept on winning and became the first to win one million dollars, and that was in 1965!

  • sorry but zenyatta isnt the best and just because she was the first to win the BC classic still doesn't mean she is

  • live. No. It is because she has won all 14 races, unparallelled in recent times. It is also the way she won the BCC. She is getting the sort of publicity and attention that Dan Patch did. She is doing the same thing, beating all comers and smashing records. Dan Patch had a Hollywood movie made about him and all sorts of things named after him. You can be sure the same will happen to Zenyatta. She is the horse of the century.

  • Sorry but best horse of the century went to Secretariat a long time ago, there will never be a horse like him. She didnt smash any records and by records i mean times. The only special race she won was the BCC with a time of 2:00.62, and she didn't even come close to Skip Away's record of 1:59:16.

  • live. The horse of the century is Zenyatta. Secretariat and Skip Away don't qualify as they raced in the previous century. If you are comparing horses across centuries, well thats another discussion.

  • ok good point but ok lets say one hundred years ago to now who is the best filly and who is the best colt, ruffian for the fillies and secretariat no doubt for the colts since 2000 my vote for best filly is between RA and zennatta RA raced aganist colts more and won mpre than once zennatta beet the same fillies over and over again and beat boys once yea she is great but idk id would have loved to see a race with them both in it but RA i think is a bleeder

  • and she didnt recover well from her last race at all so they miht even retire her i kno zennatta is done se os freakin 5 she is great tho

  • but both fillies are phenominal for their achivements but zennatta horse of the century if u count all hundred years no way

  • runwild. I don't know. The century is still running. She is the best horse in the 21st Century.

  • i kno but a hundered years to now there is no way she is the best my vote for 21st goes to RA

  • runwildnfree. You must think that RA is a great one to be Horse of the Century. Everyone is entitled to a viewpoint. I personally think that Zenyatta is the best this Century and Dan Patch in the last one. I think Dan Patch was the first racehorse to have a film made about him.

  • RA is a great filly so is zenyatta but if u compare competition then RA wins she beat colts in the preakness and she won the mother goose in record time tht is faster than ruffian in tht race zenyatta wouldnt even come close im sry but id have to say RA just cuz of who she beat and what she has done as a three year old zen is 5 as a 3 yr old she could have never done what RA did