Count Fleet
1943 Horse of the Year and Triple Crown
Earnings: $250,300 ($2.6 million in 2002 dollars)

Owned by the Hertz family of rental car fame, the long-legged Count Fleet was so good at age two that he was assigned 132 pounds in The Jockey Club's year-end handicap ranking of American two-year-olds, the largest impost ever assigned there. He left his competitors in the dust at the three Triple Crown contests. Retiring to stud, Count Fleet sired an impressive list of champions.