1989 Preakness

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Originally Posted by golfer

were any of the other horses in that race any good? I didn't follow racing that closely back then, but I have never heard of any of the other horses.

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.