On October 4, 1981, at the Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire, a pair of Belgians weighing 4,350 lb combined dragged a 22,000 lb sled 66 inches across dry clay. That is about five times their own body weight. UPI reported it as a new world horse-pulling record. It is also the best-documented pull we found […]

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” It gets pinned on Winston Churchill more than anyone. But the line was already in print by April 1859. Churchill was born in 1874. That’s the problem with the top-ranking lists of horse riding quotes. They run […]

Every app on this list pays its welcome offer once. Every race takes its cut every time. That cut is takeout: the track’s share of each pool, removed before winners get paid. It runs roughly 12% to 20.75% on win, place, and show bets, and about 20% to 31% on trifecta and superfecta pools. So […]