| Owner: Mrs. John D. Hertz Breeder: Mrs. John D. Hertz State Bred: KY Winnings: 21 Starts: 16 - 4 - 1, $250,300
At 2: WON Champagne Stakes, Pimlico Futurity, Walden Stakes, Wakefield Stakes
2ND East View Stakes, Washington Park Futurity
3RD Belmont Futurity
At 3: WON Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Wood Memorial, Withers Stakes Assigned high-weight of 132 lbs on John B. Campbell's Experimental Hcp for 2 yos of 1942 (ARM) 
Triple Crown Winner (1943)Horse of the Year (1943)Champion 2YO Colt (1942) Champion 3 YO Colt (1943)Leading Sire (1951)Leading Broodmare Sire (1963)Owner John D. Hertz couldn’t sell him as a yearling but almost sold as a 2YO for $4,500 but his stable boy Sam Ransom and jockey Johnny Longden convinced Hertz not to sell him. Ransom said of him “when he wants to run he can just about fly” and so he did. Entered stud in 1945 at Stoner Creek Farm. Died in 1973.
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