Has a horse ever won two races on the same day at a proper meeting?

Question

Has a horse ever won two races on the same day at a proper meeting?

Answer 1

Just a little information for creation. Maybe you consider that the Little Brown Jug is a minor horse race, but it has been and continues to be raced in heats every year, with the winners of the heats going on to the final heat. I have also seen where more than just the top finishers from the heats moved on to the next heat, and if that race was won by a horse who didnt win either of the first heats, then they would have a race off. I could name other harness races which are raced in heats and the final on the same day, but there really are too many. I assume because creation might have seen the World Trotting Derby a couple of weeks ago he may assume that is the only one, but with races like the Little Brown Jug and the Confederation Cup, the will always be races with multiple heats and multiple starts for the winning horses.

Answer 2

When horseracing first started the races were run as heats, so yes horses would have had to race two or three times before being declared the winner.

These days, however, the vets would not allow a horse to run in two races in the same day.  

It is common for an in-form horse (usually a handicapper) to be sent out several times in the space of 10 days or so and CHOISIR famously won two races at Royal Ascot in the same year: The King's Stand (run on the Tuesday) and The Golden Jubilee (run on the Saturday).

Answer 3

Not in the UK - the vets would not allow it.

Answer 4

not in the post war era,the jockey club banned the practice.i had a horse who was beaten in a photo on the sat.and then won on the sunday.I have ridden the same horse in two seperate races in a point-to point but that is not under rules,but still 2x3 miles under 12 stone was a good effort i think.

Answer 5

Ever - yes, as in the old days they used to have re-runs following a dead heat.  I am sure there have also been other instances but probably not since the war, although I would not even rule that out. They have certainly run twice on the same day and that not so very long ago either although again I cannot give instances.

Answer 6

No, they can't race twice a day.

Answer 7

back in 1976 at Hollywood park.

effervescing...trained by d.Wayne Lukas

won on Saturday The 2ND of July, and

came back and won on Monday The 4th of July.

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in harness racing back in the 80's

the Hambiltonian had 3 qualifying races...

and the winners came back in the finals later on that day...

the horse who won leg 3.....would have to run 4 times in

1 day......

Answer 8

In harness racing the Hambletonian was raced in heats, with the winner needed to win twice. Quite often they raced 3 times in a day. Pacers also used to race a qualifying heat and come back near the end of the card to race in the final.

Heat racing is all-but done in harness racing, with the exception of the World Trotting Derby, held in DuQuoin, IL and perhaps a few minor stakes races.