Which Horse Has Had the Best 2024?

When it comes to horse racing, there is no country that it is more popular in than the United Kingdom. It is home to some of the biggest horse racing meetings in the calendar, from the Grand National that is hosted annually at Aintree, to many of the other events in the calendar such as Royal Ascot that see members of the monarchy attend and show their support. However, it’s not the meetings that we’re going to be focusing on today but instead we are going be looking at the stars of the show, the horses themselves. In a year that has seen some fantastic racing thus far, we are going to look at which racehorse has performed the best this year thus far and this may not necessarily narrow this to down to one particular horse.

 

The winner of the grand national

 

Well, firstly if we look at what is considered the biggest event in the horse racing calendar, that is of course the Grand National at Aintree was won this year by I Am Maximus, which was trained by Willie Mullins, grabbing the £500,000 first prize in the meantime. Mullins of course is no stranger to glory at the National, having won back in 2005 when he rode Hedgehunter, returning to glory this time as a trainer. Before the race started, the horse was a 7/1 favourite and certainly didn’t let the pressure get to him as he remained calm and cool and was the first across the line. Although this wasn’t a flash in the pan for the horse, having always won in the Irish National, thereby showing that he can be the star in multiple large meetings.

 

Ways of ranking horses

 

Although if you want to veer away from the big meetings and actually look at which horse has won the most so far this year if that’s how you class it to be the best, you would be looking at a horse called Ova Charged which has had a remarkable 6 wins from 7 starts netting just over £489,000 in prize money over those races, an incredible feat. Although if you instead look at prize money as the main factor for ranking which horse has performed the best, you would then look at a horse called Mystik Dan that has just over £4M in winnings.

 

A subjective matter

 

As you may have guessed already, when it comes to answering the question which horse has had the best year so far, it is really difficult to answer as it is very subjective. People will rate success in different ways. Those that see it as a business will prioritise profits over stats and then rank the horse that has won the most money so far this year. Whereas others who instead don’t prioritise money as much will instead have a look at how many races have been won and use that to determine that it’s the correct identifying factor of glory.

 

In Summary

 

Hopefully today we have shown and identified to you the varying ways in which racehorses can be ranked and rated and also in that same respect to show you which horses are leading the way so far in 2024 and we still have some very big meetings to go in the calendar still so it is in no way a done deal yet and there are still plenty of opportunities for the rankings to change as we move into the Autumn and Winter of this year.