A horse made 20 times more money than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Cristiano in 2020

The coronavirus pandemic caused millions of deaths around the world, isolated countries and collapsed the economy of the entire planet. In this context, sport was not the exception, since the several months of inactivity and the absence of the public that until today lasts in hundreds of nations damaged the finances of clubs, organizations and entities. 2020 has been so particular that this week a study was released whose results are as unusual as they are surprising.

Is that the site The Sun published the ranking prepared by the OLBG betting site of the athletes who won the most money last year, which is not only based on income, but also on competition time. That's, the millions of dollars that the athletes obtained were divided by the minutes they performed the activity.

Thus, boxer Tyson Fury ranks first on the list for having earned $ 2.95 million per minute. It is that his only performance in the ring was the victory against Deontay Wilder in February 2020 when he snatched the heavyweight title from the World Boxing Council (WBC) in the seventh round with a technical knockout. When you divide the millions he earned from being in the ring for only seven rounds all year, the figure becomes so hefty that it is virtually impossible to beat.

It is then in this framework that the great surprise occurs because a horse is placed second. Authentic, voted America's Horse of the Year in 2020, earned $ 560,747 per minute. It's that the colt that retired in November won the Sham Stakes (grade 3 competition), San Felipe Stakes (grade 2) and Haskell Stakes (grade 1). But the most resonant titles of him were in the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders Cup Classic.

The equine was born on May 5, 2017 in Kentucky and is the son of stallion Into Mischief and mother mare Flawless. In 2018, it was auctioned, according to a report by the Equibase company, and acquired for USD 350,000, a negligible figure considering the profits it generated in its first six outings: it won five and was awarded USD 2.4 million.

In November, Authentic retired from racing to join the stallion group, meaning that now it will be his turn to enjoy life at Spendthrift Farm, the same ranch where his father's, while hundreds of investors will pay thousands of dollars for his semen . To measure the value of the animal, the MyRacehorse company bought 12.5% of the horse's property and then sold 12,500 shares for $ 206 to those who wanted to keep 0.001% of the foal's breeding and racing rights.

Authentic then earned $ 560,747 per minute, 20 times more than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The Argentinean, 19th in the ranking, obtained USD 27,751 per minute, while the Portuguese, USD 26,158. It is worth remembering that these figures are derived from the division of earnings by playing time and footballers have many times more than one commitment per week, which lowers the average in this report. That's why half of the members of this Top20 are horses.