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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I really hope no one says Favorite Trick..... Or Vindication
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Why would anyone bring up Favorite Trick? He didn't do much. Let me list a few of his accomplishments. Lots of two year olds have had similar success.
1. Undefeated in eight starts, including seven straight stakes.
2. Earned $1,231,998.
3. Won Grade 1 stakes in New York and California.
4. Won the Breeders Cup Juvenile, G1, in the fastest time in the history of the race.
5. Co-leader in total number of 1997 North American graded stakes wins through Breeders Cup XIV.
6. Won at 4 1/2, 5, 5 1/2, 6, 6 1/2, 7, and twice at 8 1/2 furlongs.
7. Won by an average of 3 1/2 lengths per race.
8. Won at four racetracks, on both coasts and in the mid-west.
9. Won on tracks labeled fast, good and muddy.
10. Defeated the winners of the Futurity Stakes G1, Champagne Stakes G1, Norfolk Stakes G2, Cowdin Stakes G2, Arlington-Washington Futurity G2, Hollywood Juvenile Championship G3, Del Mar Futurity G2, Sapling Stakes G3, Nashua Stakes G3 and the Kentucky Cup Juvenile G3, and everyone by at least three lengths.
11. Gave weight winning both the Bashford Manor Stakes G3 and the Saratoga Special G2.
12.Was favored in seven of his eight starts at odds no higher than 7 to 5.
13. Was "clear or "ridden out" in each of his last six starts.
14. Ran a sub-45 half-mile fraction in the Saratoga Special G2 on a muddy track assigned a variant of 19 by Daily Racing Form.