Steve Jobs’ Daughter Eve Jobs Marries Olympic Gold Medalist Harry Charles In $6.7 Million Fairytale Wedding<\/a>Even Johnson\u2019s teammate and quarterback at the time, Carson Palmer, doubted the race idea. Palmer told the Associated Press, \u201cI don\u2019t think he understands how fast horses are\u2026 I\u2019ve been to the Kentucky Derby. I\u2019ll secretly put money on the horse.\u201dBut Johnson proved everyone wrong. After the race, he even joked with Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Dustin Dow, \u201cFloyd Mayweather, you\u2019re next. I want to play Kobe and LeBron one-on-one. Jeff Gordon, let\u2019s race laps.\u201dEven at 46 now, Johnson still talks big on his podcast Nightcap with Shannon Sharpe and he still believes he could beat a horse today.<\/p>\nFAQs<\/p>\n
1. Did Chad Johnson really race a horse? Yes, he did! Chad Johnson raced a real horse in 2007 and he actually won.2. Where did Chad Johnson race the horse? The race happened at River Downs racetrack in Cincinnati, Ohio.3. Why did Chad Johnson race a horse? He did it for fun and to raise money for a charity started by his coach, Marvin Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe starts slow\u201d: NFL star Chad Johnson beats a real racehorse in jaw-dropping race at Cincinnati\u2019s River Downs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[17764,17766,17765,17770,17771,17768,17767,3004,17769,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-chad-johnson-horse-race","tag-chad-johnson-speed","tag-chad-ochocinco-racing-event","tag-charity-race-chad-johnson","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-famous-race-results","tag-nfl-star-beats-horse","tag-racing","tag-river-downs-cincinnati","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u201cHe starts slow\u201d: NFL star Chad Johnson beats a real racehorse in jaw-dropping race at Cincinnati\u2019s River Downs (Image via Getty) Chad Johnson, the former NFL wide receiver famously known as Chad \u201cOchocinco,\u201d once did something very wild. He raced a real horse and won. This unusual race happened back in 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the time, Johnson was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals and was one of the fastest players in the league. He called the race \u201cjust for fun,\u201d but what he pulled off surprised everyone. Even thousands of fans were there to watch it live.<\/p>\n