Greyhound

Greyhound, (foaled 1932), American harness racehorse (Standardbred), considered by many to have been the greatest trotter that ever raced.

A tall (about 66 inches [168 cm]) gray gelding sired by Guy Abbey out of Elizabeth, Greyhound competed for seven seasons (1934–40), winning 71 of 82 heats (divisions of races) and 33 of 37 full races. In 1935 he won the Hambletonian Stake, the great race for three-year-old trotters. On September 29, 1938, he established a world trotting record for 1 mile in 1:55 1/4 (subsequently broken). He also excelled in trotting under saddle (a form of racing in which trotters are ridden, rather than driven from a sulky); he set saddle records of 3:02 1/2 for 1.5 miles (1937), 4:06 for 2 miles (1939), and 2:01 3/4 for 1 mile (1940). In 1971 Greyhound was named outstanding trotter of the 20th century in a membership poll of the Hall of Fame of the Trotter, part of the Trotting Horse Museum (later the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame) in Goshen, New York.