Has any thoroughbred ever won 3 races in the same day since 1900?
 

I haven't been able to find any.

Ogden, a champion 2-year-old and one-time 3rd place finisher in the Suburban Handicap, is the only horse I know who ever won 2 different races in the same day on two different surfaces.


At Coney Island in New York City on September 2nd 1901 -- he won a six furlong dirt race over a wet track at 3PM and came back and won a turf race at 8.5fs at 5:20 PM on two hours and twenty minutes rest.









If anyone could get a horse to win three races in the same day now, it's probably Rick Dutrow Jr., Jeff Mullins, or maybe Kirk Ziadie.

Barry Abrams would try

i doubt you'll find another. races used to be run in heats back in the 1700 and 1800's. so they all used to run at least twice a day, or perhaps even three times if two horses won the first two heats of a particular race.

and i see ogden carried more weight in the second race. interesting stuff.

Lukas should try it in the Breeders Cup with Optimizer.

He could use the Marathon as a prep for the Turf and just run the hose over him, dry him off, and leave him out for the Classic.

For harness horses, the Hambletonian was run in heats until 1990 which could require a horse to race 3 times in one day. I believe the Little Brown Jug still is run in heats under the same format.

The most notable recent accomplishment was the Dutrow trained Golden Man running 3rd in the Long Branch Stakes and coming back the very next day to finish 2nd in the Leonard Richards Stakes.


I can't even remember the last time anyone has attempted to run a thoroughbred twice on the same day.

This was going to be my reply, closest thing I can recall.

Ogden was a successful sire as well.

Here is his wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_%28horse%29


Here is a story about him: http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pagev....8;passterms=1

The last I recall was in the late 70's/early 80's.
King Leatherbury ran Fleet Don B. to a 3rd place finish at Pimlico and 2nd place finish at Penn that evening.

I recall that in the 1910's or 20's, the Latonia Championship was contested twice by top two finishers (White and Los Angeles, maybe) to settle a refusal to accept a declared dead heat. I think the same horse won both 12 furlong races - faster time the second go round.

I give you the utmost respect for remembering anything that ran at Parr Meadows!

I know a Maryland horse back in the 80s won a race during the day, then won at Penn at night. I think he was trained by King Leatherbury.