1989 Preakness

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Originally Posted by miraja2

Of the other horses in the race, the most notable was probably Hawkster. He was a G1 winner at 2 and went on to be a multiple G1 winner at 3 on the turf.
Houston was a fabulously bred son of two champions (Seattle Slew and Smart Angle) who won three graded stakes in his 3yo year. The 9.5 furlongs of the Preakness, however, was well beyond his distance limitations.
Dansil (who Dave Johnson somehow confuses with Easy Goer for a moment when that colt takes the lead) won the Arkansas Derby in 1989 defeating a pretty decent horse there in Clever Trevor.
Northern Wolf is best known for turning in one of the better performances of any "field" horse in Kentucky Derby history (4th I believe).
Rock Point was coming into the Preakness off of a win in the Federico Tesio.
I don't remember anything about Pulverizing.....but according to pedigreequery, he raced 92 times in his career.

Dansil was a John Franks horse that came out west at 4 under Jack Van Berg and ran a couple of good races on the turf out here. He was a son of Silver Hawk, like Hawkster.

Hawkster won the '89 Oak Tree Invitational in world record time going wire to wire while holding an 8-length throughout the race. The race is on youtube somewhere, pretty impressive effort. He was a closer on the dirt, but was a speed horse on turf. At 4 he didin't win, but ran close to Prized and Steinlen on the turf and was 3rd to Flying Continental and Quiet American in the Strub on dirt. Also the broodmare sire of Afleet Alex.

Northern Wolf ended up being a top Mid-Atlantic sprinter. Might have won the Frank DeFrancis Dash.