Who was the fastest horse ever clocked?

Answer 1

The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) website lists the ten fastest times for the quarter mile (440 yards). http://racing.aqha.com/racing/dyn_content.aspx?FQD=http://www.aqha.com/aqharacing.com/events/allamerican/fastesttimes.html The fastest time was set by No Secrets Here in 2006, :20.886. If you do the math, that works out to 43.091 MPH. The longer the race, the slower the final pace. The current world record for 1 mile is held by Mr. Light, 1:31.41 set at Gulfstream Park in January of 2005. http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/28890/mr-light-shows-way-in-poker-handicap This works out to 39.38 MPH. Here in America, horses don't run races at distances of 2 miles very often, but overseas, both in the UK/Europe and in the Southern Hemisphere (both South America and Australia/New Zealand), the two-mile distance is the "cup" distance and top-class horses still contest races at that distance. The world record for 2 miles is held by Polazel, 3:15, http://thoroughbredchampions.com/library/worldrec.htm, set in July of 1924 over a turf course that was so hard that the horse's hooves rattled. That works out to 36.92 MPH. What fascinates me is that in recent years, harness horses (trotters and pacers) have been lowering the world records for the trot and the pace to the point where a lot of horses couldn't keep up at the gallop. The world record time for a trotter is 1:49.3, set by Enough Talk in 2008. That's 32.94 MPH. The world record for a pacer is 1:46.4, set by Holborn Hanover in 2006. That's 33.83 MPH. http://www.ustrotting.com/misc/world_records/recordperformers.cfm That's awful darn fast for a horse that is doing it in "second gear"! If you want to talk about sustained speed over a very long distance, then I don't think you can do better than look at the 100 mile Tevis Cup competitive endurance ride. This "race" is a ride over 100 miles that re-traces the final leg of the Pony Express route through the mountains and down into Auburn, CA. The fastest time was 11 hours and 18 minutes, set by a half-Arab named Pancho in 1968. That works out to 11.3 miles per hour. However, this is elapsed time, not absolute time: Tevis Cup rules require rest stops at certain points, and the clock stops while the horse is resting and re-starts when the horse leaves the checkpoint. It has to be pointed out that in every one of these cases, the horses involved were superbly conditioned and in the peak of health, were all ridden/handled by people who were dedicated and focused on helping the horse achieve the absolute maximum speed it can. Also, in the case of the race horses, the surface they were running over was a racetrack, which is not comparable to the kinds of surfaces that pleasure horses might be ridden over. Another caveat: at the various two-year-old in training sales for Thoroughbreds around the country, you'll get Thoroughbreds that will exceed the world records set by Quarter Horses for distances of 220 yards (1 furlong) and a quarter mile (2 furlongs), but those records are not official times. The horses are timed from a running start, not from a starting gate, and the timing is not as precise as in a race. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

20 m/s The American Quarter Horse is the king of speed. In fact, racing American Quarter Horses have been clocked at nearly 50 mph as they cross the finish line.
55mph. But they say that it might get faster over the years if they keep getting trained in gallop, speed, and some trot.
The average horse runs about 35-40 mph, maybe 45 if it is on the leggy side. Over a quarter of a mile a Quarter horse can reach up to 55 mph. The typical thoroughbred race horse runs about 45-50 mph

Answer 3

Officially, Secretariat set records in all three races of the Triple Crown in 1973, the year he won it. All three still stand today.

His records:

Kentucky Derby 1 and 1/4 miles 1:59 2/5

Preakness Stakes 1 and 3/16 miles 1:53

Belmont Stakes 1 and 1/2 miles 2:24

Dr Fager ran a second quarter in the Washington Park Handicap of :20 3/5, which is the fastest quarter mile ever in the body of a race.

Answer 4

the world fastest horse run up to almost 50 mph wow his name was man o war

Answer 5

ok first the fastest horse is a Quarter horse they can run up to 55 mph remember the fastest land animal is a cheata and it can run 60.

Answer 6

Probably one record that will never be broken, Secretariat's 1973 Belmont time of 2:24 flat..It has been estimated he was running over 55 mph down the stretch.

Answer 7

Racing Quarter horses have been clocked at 55 mph over short distances.

Well, the fastest recording of a horse was about 50mph so I'm guessing that was a racehorse!