Nationalore (1995–2000) was a black thoroughbred gelding who contended the 1998 Kentucky Derby, despite having won none of his previous fifteen races, a record number at the time.
[3] Nationalore was by Video Ranger (fourth in the 1990 Kentucky Derby[1]) out of Romantic Jet.
[5] That year, his fourth race in 34 days,[6] and his most lucrative result, was third place in the Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile, which earned him $120,000.
[7] As a three-year-old, he was entered into the Kentucky Derby with career earnings of $283,767 from 15 races.
[5] Nationalore was five years old when he was euthanized on 12 July 2000 after falling in a race at Hollywood Park and fracturing his shoulder.