Cross Breeds - What race horses have been claimed-then gone on to fame?

What race horses have been claimed-then gone on to fame?

Horses that were considered nobodies...then they turned out to become great or good horses. Horses like Seabiscuit,Lava Man etc. I would love to find some older horses,rather than recent ones. but those suggestions are great too! Thanks!

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manikato, kingston town, seciteriet, delcify, owen jay star, dont no what races they won but search them up and you will find out :) i no mankiato and kingston town were consisded nobodies at birth and became 2 of the best race horse the world has ever seen
The most successful horses that were claimed (including claiming price and career earnings) are: Lava Man $50,000 $5,250,724 Budroyale $32,000 $2,840,810 Say Florida Sandy $60,000 $2,085,408 King’s Swan $80,000 $1,924,845 Ladies Din $32,000 $1,906,754 Native Desert $32,000 $1,828,177 Also very deserving of the list is Stymie who raced in the 1940s was claimed for $1,500 and won $918,485
To add to the excellent list Hoss provided: John Henry wasn't claimed, but he was running for $25,000 when Sam Rubin, who wasn't eligible to claim, bought him. *Princequillo, a leading sire whose offspring included Hall of Famer Round Table and the dam of Secretariat, raced for a $1500 claiming price and was claimed by Boone Hall Stable, whose trainer (Hall of Famer Horatio Luro) turned him into a stakes-quality "cup horse" (distance specialist). The Thoroughbred Three Bars, who went on to become a leading sire of Quarter Horse champions both on the racetrack and the show ring, was a $2,000 claim. U-see-it, dam of Kentucky Derby winner Black Gold, was entered by owner Al Hoots in a claiming race at the old Juarez racetrack. There was supposed to be a "gentleman's agreement" in effect that she wouldn't be claimed, but a man dropped a claim in for her. Al Hoots refused to allow U-see-it to be taken, drawing a shotgun on the officials who came to get her. Hoots and the mare were banned for life from racing, but U-see-it bore Black Gold to the cover of Black Toney.