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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 3164389, member: 250"] Your post brought back the memory of the great gelding, John Henry. His amazing career is outlined here: [URL='https://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/John_Henry#']John Henry - Horse[/URL] In summary: " In a career that spanned 1977 to 1984, the gallant gelding raced 83 times and developed from a claimer into an immensely popular two-time Horse of the Year. He won 17 Grade 1 stakes during eight years of racing that saw him rise from a $1,100 yearling purchase to a horse that won 39 races and set the sport’s all-time earnings record of $6,597,947 - every penny of it before the introduction of the Breeders’ Cup and its million-dollar purses. " [URL="https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2016-john-henry-the-peoples-champion"]John Henry: The People’s Champion[/URL] At the age of 9 he won the Arlington Million. He did not come into his own until he was 5 I think, but then he pretty much just won and won. [MEDIA=youtube]pzPAMVZ5m-w[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]