The Resume

(March 30, 1970-October 4, 1989)
Sire: Bold Ruler
Dam: Something Royal
Owner: Penny Tweedy (Chenery)
Trainer: Lucien Lauren
Jockey: Ron Turcotte
1973 Triple Crown Winner
Career Earnings: $1,316,808
Only raced sixteen months
Won sixteen of twenty-one races, finished in the money twenty times

Why he might be annoying:

He won the last leg of the Triple Crown (Belmont Stakes) by 31 lengths (a record that stands today), making a laughing stock out of the competition.
An autopsy revealed his heart was 2½ times the size of an average horses' (unfair advantage).

Why he might not be annoying:

He was voted 'Horse Of The Year' (1972, 73).
He was voted '35th Greatest Athlete Of The 20th Century' by ESPN (the only animal voted in the Top 50).
He was euthanized at nineteen, after suffering from laminitis - a painful hoof disease.
Research: Tim Howard

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Big Dicks
• ESPN Sports Century (Ranked: 35)
• Horse Faces
• Horse Owners
• Horses, Donkeys and Mules
• I am a Kentuckian
• I Died Before My 30th Birthday (Ranked: 19)
• I Died in 1989 (Ranked: 19)
• I Won the Kentucky Derby (Ranked: 1973)
• Known By a Single Name
• Menagerie of Animals
• Profiles 2751-3000 (Ranked: 2867)
• Redheads - Male
• Smithsonian’s 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time [2015] (Ranked: 10)
• Sports Illustrated '40 For the Ages' (Ranked: 17)
• Sports Illustrated's 100 Greatest Moments in Sports History (Ranked: 13)
• Sports List's Top 10 Blowouts (Ranked: 8)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19891004)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2112 Votes: 35.04% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 815 Votes: 45.64% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 101 Votes: 46.53% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 50 Votes: 48.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 19 Votes: 21.05% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 19 Votes: 10.53% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 44 Votes: 47.73% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 27.78% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 75 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 120 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 63 Votes: 41.27% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 74 Votes: 35.14% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 206 Votes: 44.66% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 164 Votes: 41.46% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 632 Votes: 42.25% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 707 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 1413 Votes: 43.10% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 8007 Votes: 35.49% Annoying
In 2001, Out of 7076 Votes: 25.18% Annoying