What is the record for life time starts by a racing horse?

Question

I have been sent a newspaper article from Perth in Australia of a pacer Satin Son who retired at 15 and started 327 times

Answer 1

I'm going to take a guess and say John Henry with total career starts at  83.

I guess there could be a cheap claiming gelding out there that has raced more, but as for champion horses, I'll go with John Henry.

Answer 2

i have 45 racehorses. theres a horse a the track named Anthony B     he srun around 97 to 110 times.

Answer 3

This is a tough question because one needs a name of a horse to research, but I know there were horses, and not just cheap claiming horses that have run more than the 83 starts of john Henry(he is  one of my favorite geldings though) and it is an impressive record and by the way he ran in a couple of claiming races early in his career.

I remember a horse That I trained briefly, I did not own him, but in his papers, he was 10 or 11 when I raced him, and I only had him for a couple of weeks, but he had won 47 races and reached the level of winning stakes races 3 times in his life, and from injuries dropped to the cheapest of claiming races and everything in between, and finally died on the track  in a claiming race he was in front and broke down at the eighth pole, it would have been his 48 win and only 2 shy of being inducted into the hall of fame, it takes 50 wins for a non classic running horse to be inducted, and it is a short list and an impressive achievement. This horses starts were well over 140, 150 starts, he was a true warrior. But I forgot his name and since I was just racing him for a friend I don't even have his winning picture and I just can't remember his name, literally hundreds of horses passed through stable through the years.  

There was a horse named Kingston, he holds the record for the most races won, who started 139 times won 89 races was out of the money only 4 times in his life, and he was a steak horse. So as you see they are out there.

check this link and just start hitting on horses names, there is no category for most starts but it is interesting and there is also an expert you can e-mail questions, and I'm still not sure you will get an answer to your question. It is a good question you asked.

WOW...327 starts that is impressive, N.Z. ers are very good horse people, but pacers and flats are very different sports, the biggest difference being pacers are pulling the weight and flats are carrying the weight, but I am not discrediting that record, I just don't think any flat racer can survive that many starts, physically.

http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.a...