The horse racing emoji is a full-tilt sprint: a jockey crouched low over a racehorse mid-gallop, reins tight, everything screaming go. On Apple/iOS, it’s a left-facing brown horse with a bright, sporty jockey in green silks and helmet, white breeches, and a flashy saddlecloth—very “photo finish” energy. You can almost hear the thundering hooves and the announcer shouting down the stretch.
People drop this when they’re speeding to a deadline, power-walking to catch the train, or declaring “off to the races” at the start of a busy day. It’s also a cheeky way to say “on my way, fast,” or to hype momentum—stocks pumping, a team on a winning streak, a speedrun PB attempt, or the group chat suddenly moving at 200 messages per minute. Around Kentucky Derby season, it pairs perfectly with fancy hats, mint juleps, and reckless trifecta dreams; expect references to Secretariat and Seabiscuit plus plenty of “photo finish” jokes. Used ironically, it’s great for galloping headfirst into bad decisions, channeling horse-girl energy, or dramatizing a very normal walk to the fridge. TL;DR: when life says trot, this emoji says giddy-up.
The long-time popular sport of horse racing. A horse is trained to compete against other horse in a race around a round track designed specifically for racing horse. The first horse across the finish line wins. Unlike dog racing, where dogs are trained to chase a mechanical rabbit, horse racing requires human rider (the jockey). The jockey provides cues to the horse, such as pace and when to pass other horses. The three largest horse races of the year are the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. If a horse wins all three races, it is called winning the "Triple Crown." As of 2013, only 11 horses have achieved this most prestigious title.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1191 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
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| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :horse_racing: |
| Keywords | Horse, Race, Racing, Jockey, Triple Crown |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Sport Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏇 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏇 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏇 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏇 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3c7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3C7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127943 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x87 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 87 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 207 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFC7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfc7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57287 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3C7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3C7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127943 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3C7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x87" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFC7" |
