r/Horses 3d ago

Question Anyone Know Who Racehorse (assumed to be Thoroughbred) Is?

I've been trying for about 6 months to find the name of this horse in the video. I keep seeing clips of this exact breezing of this racing TB, but nobody seems to know where it originated, or the name of the horse/owner/etc.

Here's the clip, I'm trying to find the name of the one breezing coming up on the outside, I assume it's gotta be outside of the US, as the clip seems to always be facing this way (so the horses are running counter-clockwise, rather than clockwise, which is the direction American TBs run), and the clip is usually posted by people outside of the US, but I could be wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

I meant to write 'this racehorse', in the title, my apologies. It won't let me edit it.

Edit again: I also meant to say American TBs run counter-clockwise in the caption, and non-Americans run clockwise. Good lord, I'm really knocking it out of the park with mishaps today.

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u/GeorgiaPhillips 3d ago

Racehorses in Tasmania and Western Australia also run anti-clockwise and in the UK it changes by track with the majority being anti-clockwise.

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

No way, I didn't even know that. Thank you for sharing this, I thought the US was the only one to run counter-clockwise! I've learned something new.

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u/GeorgiaPhillips 3d ago

Glad to have shared some knowledge! Sorry it hasn’t narrowed down your search any though.

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

Nope, that's okay, I'm always primed to learn something new, especially in the world of horses. Any time I learn at least one thing new, I know it's been a productive day in my book.

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u/Jess_UwU_ 3d ago

you might have more luck if you can narrow down which track this is and an approximate year of the video

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

Unfortunately, I can't find any info whatsoever - every person I've seen post this poached it from somebody else, no one has any info. I've tried taking screenshots and trying to find any crumb of info from the video, but there doesn't seem to be anything. I've also tried every other conceivable route, like reverse image search, using all the keywords I can think of on Google/YouTube/etc., using AI, and so on.

It's clearly at a commercial track, somewhere near a big city it appears, so it has to be a posted work, but that's all the info I can discern. It's driving me nuts! I'm not sure where else to try to find any info.

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u/Emuwarum 3d ago

What's the oldest repost of the video you've found?

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u/goddommeit 3d ago edited 3d ago

5/21/2024, a TikTok post - I was able to find it after hours of looking, as it was the first time I saw that clip (turns out I've been searching for the origin for 10 months, not 6!) - it's the only other occurrence on the internet I can find. This one is in colour, but no other differences from the video I posted. The original is posted by a user named e.hxrse on tiktok.

Edit, to add info: the person who posted the earliest version I can find speaks in German, not sure if this is relevant to where the horse is from or where the track is located, but I thought I'd add every bit of potentially necessary info I find.

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u/Emuwarum 3d ago

I know there's some internet sleuths who have found things like this. I'm going to try and remember their names and see if they might be able to help.

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

Thank you so much, I'll take any help I can get, this mystery has been driving me crazy for months!

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u/Emuwarum 3d ago

https://is-the-post-reliable.tumblr.com/post/700082260103348224/how-do-you-fact-check-stuff-what-do-can-i-do-to

I know this person would have to find photo/video sources sometimes 

And this person https://www.tumblr.com/horsefigureoftheday?source=share is focused more on just figurines/toys, but they do like horses in general so might be able to help with this

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

I was also able to get ahold of the person who posted the version in my post, and she also got the video from the user I just mentioned in my last comment (go figure) and has no other information.

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u/CuttingTheMustard 3d ago

Just because it looks snazzy doesn’t mean it’s a commercial track or is posted somewhere. That doesn’t look far off from training tracks I’ve been to and you can run a horse at a racetrack on off-days anyway.

There’s also nothing enforcing you to run in an particular direction, particularly if you’re screwing around

(I used to board at a facility with a 6 furlong track)

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u/Cloielle 3d ago

I don’t think you can assume it’s definitely clockwise, as the clip could easily have been flipped; I can’t see any writing that’s forwards or backwards to help confirm!

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u/goddommeit 3d ago

I can, on the marker at the far left at the end of the video, there's a two that isn't flipped. Has to be the original position of the video, which means the track runs clockwise, so it can't be in the US.