The longest winning streak in modern day harness racing, dating back to 2017, was recently ended at 56 consecutive victories.
Spanish trotter Trebol was a top-level trotter in Europe, competing in and winning major stakes events. He knocked off some of the best trotters in the 2015 Kymi Grand Prix in Finland, becoming the first Spanish-bred trotter to win a Group 1 race in Europe while defeating the likes of Timoko, Maven and Oasis Bi. He showed it was no fluke a year later, again defeating Timoko and Oasis Bi in the 2016 Kymi Grand Prix.
His owners brought him back to Spain in 2017, where his winning streak began on September 30, 2017. He'd win eight races that fall, followed by 28 races in 2018 and another 20 in 2019 at the age of 12.
The streak was snapped at on October 13, 2019 in a race at Hipòdrom Torre del Ram on the Spanish island of Menorca. Trebol did his best to get by Cuore des Pres at multiple points in the 2,100 metre event but could not and finished a valiant third.
For his career, Trebol sports 86 wins from 133 starts and earnings of 688.006,00€ or $995,660 after converting to Canadian currency. He's finished in the top five in 114 of his 133 lifetime starts, going undefeated in two seasons of racing -- a nine-win three-year-old campaign and his aforementioned 28-for-28 run as an 11-year-old.
Interestingly, the longest winning streak for a Thoroughbred racehorse is also 56 races. Puerto Rico's Camarero won 56 straight races while competing in his own country between 1953 and 1955.
Nice horse. They should
Nice horse. They should bring him over to North America