A collection of famous quotes about the sport of horse racing
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy
“Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they’ll both win for you.”
- Elizabeth Arden
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“If you cut a dog’s head off, you get 25 hours bad luck. It is bad luck to kill a pegasus, unicorn,
horse, or similar, if it is pure white in colour. (Followers of Dark and Death tend to disregard this).”
“I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”
- Woody Allen
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
- W C Fields
“Look not a gift horse in the mouth.”
- Unknown
If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come back a horse.
- Thomas Fuller
Guesses at Truth
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
- Julius & Augustus Hare
Sleep and Poetry
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.
- John Keats
Weekend Book
I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.
- Naomi Royde-Smith
Twelfth Night
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
- Shakespeare
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
- R S Surtees
The burden is equal to the horse’s strength.
- The Talmud
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted
to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
- Dick Deddoes
“If you hear the sound of hoofbeats, don’t look for zebra!”
- Unknown
In the world of mules there are no rules.
- Ogden Nash
Yankee Doodle camer to town
Riding on a pony;
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
- Anonymous - Nursery Rhyme
A horse is simply a horse.
- Avicenna
Cavalier Tunes “Boot and Saddle”
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
- Robert Browning
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”
- Damon Runyon
“The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.”
- James Joyce
“Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose.”
- Anonymous
“A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.”
- Tesio
“A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
- Shakespeare
“If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.”
- Unknown
“You can lead a horse to manure but you can’t make him drink.”
- Unknown
“Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.”
- Unknown