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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)
