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8/11/2025, 8:31:30 PM
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Nta but I'm from her home, Magyarország, so take this with a grain of salt.
She was a mare in the late 19th century, it was completely different world not just in horse racing but in terms of everything else so I don't see the point in modern comparisons, while she participated in races that today would be classics or international stakes, G1 and G2 stuff, international stakes, that classification system was still a century away.
If she was a fraud then all of Europe was in on it, she ran 54 races between 1876 and 1879 and she won all of them according to papers of the time, never got disqualified either. Beyond regional races she won second-rate and first-rate races in the Empires of Austria-Hungary, Germany, France and the British Empire, including some fairly prestigious ones that are still around to this day in one form or another (the Deauville Grand Prix and the Goodwood Cup for example) and she did it as a mare.
It was a long time ago but she's something of a local Legend here, our main race track is named after her, she (and her cat) have multiple statues throughout the country, this year's biggest race is named after her, you get it, it's hard to give a fair shake to someone who's this much of local Legend almost 200 years later.
According to papers and interviews of the time that covered the races she was a sensation people came to see by the thousands, she was competitive, calm and able to travel long distances via train without stressing out, a rarity even today, and her competition were often respected horses that have raced their local tracks since birth. She's remembered today for her sheer number of wins above everything else but it's impossible to compare what she had with the racing scene of the 21st century, it was a different world but she ruled it like arguably no one else at the time.
Nta but I'm from her home, Magyarország, so take this with a grain of salt.
She was a mare in the late 19th century, it was completely different world not just in horse racing but in terms of everything else so I don't see the point in modern comparisons, while she participated in races that today would be classics or international stakes, G1 and G2 stuff, international stakes, that classification system was still a century away.
If she was a fraud then all of Europe was in on it, she ran 54 races between 1876 and 1879 and she won all of them according to papers of the time, never got disqualified either. Beyond regional races she won second-rate and first-rate races in the Empires of Austria-Hungary, Germany, France and the British Empire, including some fairly prestigious ones that are still around to this day in one form or another (the Deauville Grand Prix and the Goodwood Cup for example) and she did it as a mare.
It was a long time ago but she's something of a local Legend here, our main race track is named after her, she (and her cat) have multiple statues throughout the country, this year's biggest race is named after her, you get it, it's hard to give a fair shake to someone who's this much of local Legend almost 200 years later.
According to papers and interviews of the time that covered the races she was a sensation people came to see by the thousands, she was competitive, calm and able to travel long distances via train without stressing out, a rarity even today, and her competition were often respected horses that have raced their local tracks since birth. She's remembered today for her sheer number of wins above everything else but it's impossible to compare what she had with the racing scene of the 21st century, it was a different world but she ruled it like arguably no one else at the time.
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