2013 Event The German racing horse, Novellist, wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2013 Event The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef 2013 Event British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" 2013 Event The Republic of Ireland's Food Safety Authority announces horse DNA was present in some beef burgers on sale in supermarkets in Ireland and in the UK 2012 Event Camelot the horse, wins the Epsom Derby, the fourth Classic win for trainer Aidan O'Brien 2011 Event At the 2011 Melbourne Cup, the French-trained horse Dunaden wins the closest finish in the race's history 2011 Event With an unbeaten run of 14 wins, Australian mare Black Caviar ties the horse racing record for consecutive victories set by Phar Lap 2011 Event At the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Danedream wins with a record racing speed of 2:24.49, the second German horse to win since 1975 1999 Death Paul Mellon, art patron/horse owner, dies at 91 1998 Death Jeanette Nolan, actress, The Horse Whisperer, dies at 86 1997 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1996 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine 1996 Death 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 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song 1994 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country 1994 Death Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78 1994 Death Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 Event Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist 1993 Event Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse 1993 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont 1993 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter 1993 Event "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances 1993 Event "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances 1993 Death Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69 1992 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park 1992 Event Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races 1992 Death Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87 1992 Event Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse 1991 Death Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 1991 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou 1991 Event Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races 1990 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled 1990 Event Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race 1989 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence 1989 Event George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album 1988 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs 1988 Event Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 1987 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood 1986 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita 1985 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct 1985 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge 1984 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood 1984 Event White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 1983 Event Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races 1982 Death Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 1981 Death Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies 1980 Event Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million 1979 Event 200th running of horse's Derby in England 1979 Death Mr Ed, talking horse, dies 1978 Death Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse 1974 Event George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom 1973 Event Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m 1971 Death Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73 1970 Birthday Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress, Dark Horse, SFW, Robert's daughter 1970 Birthday Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973 1966 Event 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires 1966 Death Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66 1965 Death Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25 1965 Birthday Melita Ruhn, born in Romania, horse vaulter 1980 Olympics bronze 1965 Death U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33 1962 Event Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races 1961 Death Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79 1960 Event Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races 1959 Event Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse 1959 Birthday 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 Death Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61 1957 Death Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 1956 Event Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track 1954 Birthday 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 Birthday 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 Birthday Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnast, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1951 Event Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races 1951 Event Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle 1950 Event Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run 1948 Event Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore 1945 Birthday Mikhail Voronin, born in U.S.S.R., horse vault gymnast, 1968 Olympics gold 1945 Event Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) 1944 Birthday Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64 1943 Birthday Liz Edgar, horse show jumper 1942 Event 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens 1940 Birthday Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer 1938 Event 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase 1937 Birthday Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper 1935 Death Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30 1935 Event Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 1933 Birthday Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisconsin, NFL fullback for the Baltimore Colts 1932 Birthday Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse 1932 Event Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race 1931 Event "White Horse Inn" opens in London 1930 Birthday Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park 1930 Birthday George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees, ship builder/horse owner 1928 Birthday Brooklyn Supreme, born in Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse, 1450 kg 1927 Birthday 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 Death Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies 1920 Birthday Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse 1918 Birthday Peter O'Sullevan, born in Ireland, horse racing commentator 1916 Birthday Alain Bernardin, impressario, Crazy Horse Saloon 1913 Event Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse 1913 Death Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse 1912 Birthday Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner, Native Dancer 1911 Event Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse 1908 Birthday Richard Caldicot, born in London, England, actor, Horse's Mouth 1907 Birthday Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnast 1948 Olympics gold 1904 Death Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies 1903 Birthday Hans C. Branner, Danish writer, Toys, Horse Rider 1903 Birthday Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables 1902 Event Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider) 1901 Event Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1899 Birthday Billy Rose, theatrical producer, Diamond Horse Show 1898 Birthday Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer, White Horse 1897 Birthday Teddy Hart, New York City, actor, 3 Men on a Horse 1894 Event J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate 1892 Birthday Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw 1889 Birthday Buck Jones, Charles F Gebhart, U.S. actor, War Horse 1889 Birthday Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music 1887 Event Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted 1883 Event 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden) 1882 Birthday Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer, Citation, Whirlaway 1879 Birthday Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers 1879 Event National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter 1879 Event In a 6-day footrace a Mr. Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km 1879 Event 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus 1878 Event 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 Death Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 1876 Death American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1874 Birthday Kincsem, horse that never lost a race 1864 Event Horse tramway at the Hague, opens 1861 Birthday Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War 1859 Birthday Edward Bradley, horse owner, 1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners 1850 Event British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1849 Birthday Hambletonian, Chester, New York, greatest standardbred horse 1838 Event 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide 1833 Event Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo 1833 Event Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe 1833 Event Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires 1831 Event "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) 1831 Birthday John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track 1830 Event Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore) 1809 Event 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England 1808 Death Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies 1789 Death Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 1776 Event St. Leger horse race run for 1st time 1756 Birthday Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general 1739 Event Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing 1668 Event 1st horse race in America takes place
