In the 2012 rankings the winning horse was Mr Meddicot, an Irish Sport Horse gelding on 364 points.

He could see that Christianity was on the rise, and he simply backed the winning horse.

Prince Albert of Monaco, in the United States for a 50th anniversary reunion of the Kelly family of Philadelphia, picked the winning horse.

Ridden by jockey Emile Ramsammy, her winning horse was considered a long shot, going off at 16-1odds in the $1 million Grade I Queen's Plate.

Every now and then I pick a winning horse out of a hat.

The Champion Jockey of flat racing in Germany is the jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season.

The archetypical outside-insider, he'd finally picked a winning horse in Fowler.

At the Meydan Racecourse, teams had to pick a winning horse before the race.

Brendan Powell, riding in his second National, paced the winning horse perfectly and guided the 10-1 shot to the front just before the 29th of the 30 grueling Aintree fences.

Prior to 2013, Calumet Farm had not had a winning horse in a Triple Crown race since 1968.