http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wmXP3PiWE
The 1990 Met Mile....Easy Goer's second to last race.
The field included four champions...
* Easy Goer (1988 Champion 2-year-old. Hall of Famer)
* Criminal Type (1990 Horse of the year)
* Black Tie Affair (1991 Horse of the year)
* Housebuster (1990 champion sprinter)
Also in the race was multiple Grade 1 winner Sewickley.....in the last 65 years, only two horses have won multiple runnings of the Gr 1 Vosburgh, they are Dr. Fager and Sewickley.
Black Tie Affair was getting 10lbs from Easy Goer and was sent off at 132/1 odds!
Easy Goer looked flat in that race from a visual standpoint - however, he actually ran a zero on the Ragozin sheet. (a gigantic figure!) Though, carrying 127 pounds and racing wide on the turn obviously had a lot to do with that.
2nd place finisher was the 3yo Housebuster, he got 14lbs from Easy Goer in this race.
He entered the '90 Met Mile on an 8 race win streak, with 7 consecutive stake wins by a combined 32 lengths. After his 2nd place finish in this race, he racked up three more Graded Stakes wins in a row, including a 13 length win in the Grade 1 Jerome Handicap, under 126lbs, handing 2nd place finisher Citidancer (who carried 12lbs less) the only loss of his brief but promising career.