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Dateline: 6/28/98

If you are not familiar with some of the horses listed, here is some info or a link to it if there is a web page for that horse.

• Affirmed
• Alydar
• Alysheba
• A.P. Indy
• Buckpasser - Champion 2yo 1965, Champion 3yo and Horse of the Year 1966
• Cigar
• Citation
• Colin - retired undefeated in 15 starts in 1908, all stakes except the first including the Belmont.
• Count Fleet
• Dr. Fager
• Easy Goer - won the Belmont in 1989 and was second to Sunday Silence in the KY Derby, Preakness, and Breeders' Cup Classic
• Equipoise - raced 1930 thru 1935 with a record of 51-29-10-4 and $338,610 in earnings. Wins included Met Mile 3 times, Whitney, Suburban, and a slew of them in Chicago.
• Exterminator
• Forego
• John Henry
• Kelso - raced 1959 thru 1966 with a record of 63-39-12-2 and $1.9 million in earnings. Horse of the Year 5 years in a row, won the Jockey Club Gold Cup 5 times when it was still 2 miles.
• Lamtarra
• Man O'War
• Nashua - raced from 1952 thru 1954 with a record of 22-21-1-0 and $785,240 in earnings. Champion 3yo and Horse of the Year in 1955, wins included the Preakness, Belmont, Travers, and Met Mile.
• Native Dancer
• Needles - Champion 3yo in 1956, won the KY Derby and Belmont, 2nd in the Preakness.
• Northern Dancer
• Octagonal - 1995 Champion 2yo In Australia, 1996 Champion 3yo and Horse Of The Year In Australia
• Personal Ensign
• Phar Lap
• Pleasant Tap
• Ribot - undefeated in 16 starts in Europe 1954-1956, won the Arc de Triomphe twice
• Ruffian
• Saintly - won the Melbourne Cup in 1996
• Seabiscuit
• Seattle Slew
• Secretariat
• Sham - 2nd to Secretariat in the KY Derby and Preakness
• Spectacular Bid
• Sunday Silence - record of 14-9-5-0 with $4,968,554 in earnings. Champion 3yo and Horse of the Year 1989, won KY Derby, Preakness, Santa Anita Derby, Super Derby, Breeders' Cup Classic
• Swaps
• Sysonby - raced in 1904-1905 and had a record of 15-14-0-1 with $184,438 in earnings, outstanding for that time, and was found to be doped in his only loss. He contracted a skin ailment and died in his stall after his 1905 season.
• Tom Fool
• War Admiral
• Whirlaway

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