He was 8-1 that day and I made my biggest bet of the year on him. It was the NYRA mile which was eventually renamed the Cigar Mile.
Looking at his pps it's hard to share your enthusiasm for his turf form. I was at SA when he finished second to Eastern Memories, who was OK but hardly a superstar ( I believe he was a Team Valor horse ), the day before the 1983 BC. He followed that by running 11th in the Hollywood Derby.
He was a dirt horse who for some odd reason was quickly removed from that surface after running a very good figure in breaking his maiden. Fortunately for his connections they eventually got around to running him on the right surface again.
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