- ... that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park?
- ...that a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms (2,030 lb)?
- ... that the Quarter pony horse breed was developed from horses that did not meet the American Quarter Horse Association's original height requirement of 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high?
- ... that thoroughbred horse Lord Avie, bought for $37,000 in 1980, was put to stud after retiring in 1981 and by 2002 had sired 578 starters, including 429 individual winners with total earnings of $35 million?
