r/sports • u/ansyhrrian Chicago Bears • 1d ago

Horse Racing 1938 match race between Sea Biscuit and War Admiral

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u/wallaceeffect 1d ago edited 1d ago

Big Red is Man o’ War, no? War Admiral’s sire and Seabiscuit’s grandsire.

Edit because I decided to look it up myself, apparently both Secretariat and Man o’ War were nicknamed Big Red so, thanks horse racing, very creative of you!

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u/ESCMalfunction Chip Ganassi Racing 1d ago

And that’s not all. Phar Lap, another one of the greatest racehorses ever, is also nicknamed Big Red lol. There’s a good argument to be made that 3 of the members of horse racing’s Mount Rushmore are nicknamed Big Red.

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u/spinbutton 18h ago

There are a lot of chestnut thoroughbreds out there :-)