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The Roar's top 50 Australian racehorses

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The Roar’s team of racing experts pooled their knowledge together to produce a comprehensive list of the top 50 Australian racehorses of all time.

The list was compiled across a series of ten articles featuring in depth insight from former Roar racing editor Justin Cinque, Roar expert Andrew Hawkins and The Roar’s unofficial historian Sheek.

The series of ten articles, featuring full analysis of each selection, can be accessed below.

The scoring system was based on a simple 1 to 50 ranking system, where a horse ranked 50th would receive one point while a horse ranked first would receive 50 points. For example, if they were ranked 45th, they were awarded six points, and if they were ranked tenth they received 41 points.

Ranking Horse Score
1 Carbine 150 (max)
2 Tulloch 146
3 Phar Lap 145
4 Kingston Town 141
5 Wakeful 134
6 Bernborough 132
7 Black Caviar 127
8 Ajax 126
9 Manikato 123
10 Makybe Diva 122
11 Vain 120
12 Rising Fast 113
13 Peter Pan 111
14 Malua 103
15 Sunline 102
16 Todman 101
17 Might And Power 94
18 Tobin Bronze 93
19 Gloaming 87
20 Poseidon 86
21 So You Think 85
22 Galilee 84
22 Gunsynd 84
24 Shannon 82
25 Sky High 76
26 Chatham 73
27 Crisp 71
28 The Barb 67
28 Eurythmic 67
30 Grand Flaneur 62 (2/3 votes)
31 Super Impose 60
32 Redcraze 58
33 Tranquil Star 56
34 Dulcify 55
35 Northerly 54
36 Octagonal 51
37 Saintly 39
38 Surround 35
39 Amounis 34 (2/3 votes)
40 Better Loosen Up 30 (2/3 votes)
41 Flight 27
42 Vo Rogue 24 (2/3 votes)
43 Strawberry Road 21 (2/3 votes)
44 Heroic 19 (1/3 votes)
44 Wenona Girl 19 (2/3 votes)
46 Dalray 18 (1/3 votes)
47 Delta 17 (1/3 votes)
48 Comic Court 16 (1/3 votes)
49 Lonhro 14 (2/3 votes)
49 Bonecrusher 14 (2/3 votes)

 

Others to poll votes included: Takeover Target (13), Beau Vite (7), Manfred (7), Let’s Elope (6), Mountain King (5), Beau Zam (4), Miss Andretti (3), High Caste (3), Rain Lover (2), Luskin Star (2), Mahogany (2), Archer (1), Red Anchor (1), Briseis (1)

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