Portal:Horses/Did you know/24


 * ... that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
 * ... that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
 * ... that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke, the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke?
 * ... that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots?