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The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. It...
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The dog (Canis lupus familiaris, pronounced /ˈkeɪ.nɪs ˈluːpəs fʌˈmɪliɛərɪs/) is a domesticated form of the Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog has been one...
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Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are seven different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), Cottontail...
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The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also commonly called the Cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not pigs, nor do they come from Guinea. They originated in the...
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Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 25 species, classified in six or seven genera.
Hamsters are crepuscular. In the wild, they burrow underground in the daylight to avoid being caught by predators...
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The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is a very well-known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. In the wild they are now considered vulnerable, due to farmers poisoning them, but are popular as housepets and...
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| x European Hamster |
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The European Hamster, Cricetus cricetus, also known as the Black-bellied Hamster or Common Hamster, is a species of hamster native to Europe. It is typically found in low-lying farmland with soft loam or loess soils, although it may also inhabit...
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| x Roborovski hamster |
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Roborovskis (Phodopus roborovskii) are the smallest of all hamsters commonly kept as pets. Distinguishing characteristics of the Roborovskis are the white spots where the eyebrows would be, and the lack of the dorsal stripe seen in all other dwarf...
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| x Ratlike hamster |
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Cricetulus is a genus of rodent in the vole and hamster family Cricetidae. They inhabit arid or semi-arid regions in Eurasia.
They tend to be more ratlike in appearance than typical hamsters, hence the common name "ratlike hamster."
Members of the...
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| x Chinchilla |
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Chinchillas are crepuscular rodents, slightly larger than ground squirrels, native to the Andes mountains in South America. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they belong to the family Chinchillidae.
The animal (whose name literally means ...
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A mouse (plural mice) is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). It is also a popular pet. The American white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the deer mouse ...
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| x Malacara |
Malacara (c. 1878 - 1909) was a horse which gained a place in the history of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Argentina by a daring leap which saved the life of his rider, John Evans, on a trip to explore the upper Chubut valley and the Andes....
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| x Black Beauty |
Black Beauty (born June 6, 1996) was formerly listed in Guinness World Records as the smallest living horse, a record she held from 2001 to 2006, when the record was taken by Thumbelina.
When Black Beauty was born on June 6, 1996. Her owners, Donald...
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| x Blackie the Horse |
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Blackie was a swaybacked horse who, for 28 years, was a well known fixture in Tiburon, CA. He not only stood in the same spot in a pasture at the corner of Tiburon Boulevard and Trestle Glen Road, rarely moving, day after day, but he faced in the...
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| x Bucephalus |
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Bucephalus or Buchephalas (Ancient Greek: Βουκέφαλος, from βούς bous, "ox" and κεφαλή kephalē, "head" meaning "ox-head") (c. 355 BC – June, 326 BC) was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity. Ancient...
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| x Clever Hans |
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Clever Hans (in German, der Kluge Hans) was a horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.
After formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually...
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Incitatus was the favored horse of Roman emperor Caligula. Its name is a Latin adjective meaning "swift" or "at full gallop".
According to Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Incitatus had a stable of marble, with an ivory manger, purple...
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| x Kanthaka |
Kanthaka ( in Pali and Sanskrit) (6th century BC, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India) was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha used Kanthaka in...
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| x Winning Colors |
Winning Colors ( February 14, 1985 - February 17, 2008) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse and one of only three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby. Though she was registered as roan, she was, in fact, a gray with a...
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| x Abercrombie |
Abercrombie (1975 - 2000) was a bay harness racing horse by Silent Majority out of Bergdorf by Duane Hanover. He won the E. Roland Harriman Award for harness horse of the year in 1978. He won 22 of his 33 races in 1978, including the Messenger...
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| x Adios |
Adios (January 3, 1940–1965) was a champion harness racing sire.
The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana. Trained and driven by Frank Ervin and for a while...
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| x Affirmed |
Affirmed (February 21, 1975 – January 12, 2001) was an American thoroughbred race horse who was the eleventh and most recent winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. He was the great-great-grandson of Triple Crown winner War...
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| x Albatross |
Albatross (1968 - 1998) was a bay horse by Meadow Skipper. He was voted Harness Horse of the Year in 1971 and 1972. Albatross won 59 of 71 starts, including the Cane Pace and Messenger Stakes in 1971, earned $1,201,477. It was, however, as a sire...
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All Along (foaled April 17, 1979; died February 23, 2005) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse that was foaled in France. She was one of the top fillies of the last part of the 20th century, racing mostly in Europe.
A granddaughter of the great...
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| x Alydar |
Alydar (March 23, 1975, Calumet Farm - November 15, 1990) was a chestnut colt and an American thoroughbred race horse who was most famous for finishing a close second to Affirmed in all three races of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, a feat...
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Aristides (1872-1893) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
In 1875 the Derby was raced at a mile and a half, the distance it would remain until 1896 when it was changed to its present mile and a quarter....
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| x Arkle |
Arkle (19 April 1957 - 31 May 1970) was a famous Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. A bay gelding by Archive out of Bright Cherry, his grandsire was the unbeaten (in 14 races) flat racehorse and prepotent sire Nearco. Arkle was bred at Ballymacoll Stud,...
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| x Arko |
Arko can refer to multiple things:
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| x Assault |
Assault (March 26, 1943 – September 2, 1971) was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse who won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1946.
Foaled at King Ranch in Texas, Assault seemed unlikely to amount to anything on the track, much less a Triple...
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| x Barbaro |
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Barbaro (April 29, 2003 – January 29, 2007) was an American thoroughbred that decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death.
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| x Best Mate |
Best Mate (bay gelding, 28 January, 1995 - 1 November, 2005. Sire: Un Desperado, Dam: Katday) was a famous English trained racehorse and three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup. He was considered and treated as one of the most loved horses in...
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Carbine (1885-1914), was a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, who competed in New Zealand and later Australia. Carbine was born at Sylvia Park Stud near Auckland, New Zealand on 18 September 1885. Owing to his performance on the track and his...
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| x Cigar |
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Cigar, foaled April 18, 1990 at Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Maryland, is a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1995 and 1996 became the first American racehorse racing against top-class competition to win 16 races in a row since the...
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Citation (April 11, 1945 - August 8, 1970) was the eighth American thoroughbred horse-racing Triple Crown champion, and one of two major North American thoroughbreds (along with Cigar in 1994-96) to win 16 races in a row in major stakes competition....
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Dan Patch (April 29, 1896-July 11, 1916). was a brown standardbred horse sired by Joe Patchen (dam Zelica) and was the outstanding pacer of his day. Foaled in 1896, Dan Patch broke world speed records at least 14 times in the early 1900s, finally...
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| x Dance Smartly |
Dance Smartly (1988-2007) was a Champion thoroughbred Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame filly racehorse who went undefeated in 1991 while winning the Canadian Triple Crown and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to ever win a Breeders' Cup race....
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| x Dawn Run |
The racehorse Dawn Run (Deep Run - Twilight Slave) was the most successful racemare in the history of National Hunt racing. She won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham racing festival in 1984 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup over fences at the festival...
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| x Desert Gold |
Desert Gold was a famous and successful New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who raced at the time of World War I. Owned by T. H. Lowry, the mare won many good races. She raced in Australia and New Zealand, winning 36 races, including a still-standing...
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| x Desert Orchid |
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Desert Orchid (April 11, 1979 – November 13, 2006), affectionately known as Dessie, was an English racehorse. The gallant grey achieved iconic status within National Hunt racing, where he was much loved by supporters for his front-running attacking...
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Eclipse (1 April 1764–26 February 1789) was an outstanding, undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who was later a phenomenal success as a sire.
He was born during and named after the solar eclipse of 1 April 1764, at the Cranbourne...
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| x Exterminator |
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Exterminator (May 30, 1915 - September 26, 1945) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby, and in 1922 won Horse of the Year honors.
The lanky chestnut colt was bred by F. D. "Dixie" Knight (Mrs. M.J. Mizner,...
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Funny Cide (foaled April 20, 2000) is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win it since 1929 (when Clyde Van Dusen...
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| x Genuine Risk |
Genuine Risk (February 15, 1977 – August 18, 2008) was a chestnut mare who won the 1980 Kentucky Derby and was the first filly to ever finish in the money in all three U.S. Triple Crown races. Ridden by Jacinto Vasquez, she finished second in the...
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| x Gloaming |
Gloaming (foaled 1915 in Australia) was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse, owned, trained, and based in New Zealand. He was a bay gelding sired by the good imported racehorse and sire, The Welkin (GB) out of the unplaced mare, Light (GB), by...
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| x John Henry |
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John Henry (March 9, 1975 – October 8, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred race horse named after the folk hero John Henry. As a youngster, the equine John Henry had a habit of tearing steel water and feed buckets off stall walls and stomping them...
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| x Kelso |
Kelso (April 4, 1957 - October 16, 1983) was an American thoroughbred race horse and is considered to be among the best racehorses of the Twentieth century. In the list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by Blood-Horse...
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| x Kindergarten |
Kindergarten (foaled 1937) was a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse during the early 1940s. He won many of the premier events in New Zealand including the Wellington Cup and Auckland Cup. He won over £16,000 in stake money, a large amount during the...
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| x Kingston Town |
Kingston Town (foaled August 31, 1976) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982. He was by Bletchingly out of Ada Hunter (GER) (by Andrea...
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| x Kissin' George |
Kissin' George (foaled 1963 in California) was an American thoroughbred racehorse, considered one of America's premier sprint horses of the late 1960s. Kissin' George was sired by Slam Ruler out of a Head Play mare called Nothead.
Kissin' George was...
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| x La Troienne |
La Troienne, (1926-1954) was one of the most famous and influential Thoroughbred broodmares in twentieth century America. She was a bay filly born in 1926 in France, and was sired by the French stallion Teddy, out of the French mare Helene de Troie...
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Longfellow (1867–1893) was one of America's first great Thoroughbred racehorses and the sire of great racehorses. A legend in his own time, he was out of the first crop of the imported English stallion, the outstanding Leamington.
Longfellow was...
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| x Lottery |
Lottery was the winner of the 1839 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, near Liverpool, England. Often stated as the first running of this famous race as it was the first to truly attract National interest in the United Kingdom. It was actually...
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Makybe Diva (GB) is an Australian-trained Thoroughbred who became the first racehorse to win the famed Melbourne Cup on three occasions: 2003, 2004, and 2005. In 2005, she also won the Cox Plate. By Desert King out of Tugela, Makybe Diva is the...
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| x Man O' War |
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Man o' War, (March 29, 1917 Nursery Stud farm, Lexington, Kentucky - November 1, 1947, Faraway Farm) is considered one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of all time. During his career just after World War I, he won 20 of 21 races and $249,465...
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| x Might and Power |
Might and Power (foaled 1993) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australian Horse of the Year in 1998 and 1999. As a four-year-old, Might And Power won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and returned at five to become only the second horse in...
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The racehorse Nijinsky (1967-1992) (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page, both winners of the Queen's Plate, and a great-grandson of Nearco and Bull Lea. After being sent to stand at stud in the...
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Northerly foaled in 1996 was bred by Oakland Park Stud, Western Australia was arguably Australia's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine...
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| x Northern Dancer |
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Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 – November 16, 1990) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred...
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| x Precious Bunny |
Precious Bunny (foaled in 1988) is a bay horse by Cam Fella out of Bunny's Wish by B Gs Bunny. He was voted Harness Horse of the Year in 1991, a year in which he won the North America Cup, the Meadowlands Pace, the Art Rooney Memorial Pace, the...
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Phar Lap (1926–1932) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated...
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