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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
Spectacular Bid also raced at 12f in the 1979 Jockey Club Gold Cup ... another race which he lost. There were no reports of wandering safety pins that day.
In 1979 the Meadowlands was a brand new track ... and new track records were set virtually every night. The 10f record set by Spectacular Bid was at a distance which had only been run once before in the track's history. That's another "oddball" circumstance.
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He lost in 1979 against the great Affirmed who was an amazing horse and also a four year old at the time. So Spectacular Bid was a three year old racing one of racing's greatest at a time when Affirmed was unbeatable. He won six grade Is that year and never lost again after the jockey switch from Cauthen to Laffit. Spectacular Bid was gallant in defeat in the Jocky Club Gold Cup.