Secretariat did not pay much attention to Drone or Sir Ivor, but he and Spectacular Bid became friendly and occasionally raced each other along the fence line between their paddocks.Spectacular Bid sired 253 winners, including 47 stakes winners that won more than US$19 million.
Spectacular Bid was the leading American two-year-old of 1978, when his wins included At the end of the 1980 season, Spectacular Bid was retired to stud, where his record as a sire of winners was mixed. With Ron Franklin as jockey, Spectacular Bid won 12 consecutive stakes races from September 1978 until his loss at the
He won Horse of the Year honors in 1980.
Spectacular Bid horse rating and status.
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He may have won a Triple Crown in 1979 had he not stepped on a safety pin at Belmont.
The first race in the series was the Grade II During his final year, Spectacular Bid compiled then-record earnings of US$2,781,607 and was named Following his last race, Spectacular Bid was syndicated for a then-record US$22 millionSpectacular Bid was sent to stud at Claiborne Farm, which is where Secretariat was also sent to stud. Spectacular Bid had rolled through the first two legs of the Triple Crown and came into the Belmont as the heavy favorite. He set five track records at distances of 7 furlongs, 1 mile, 1¼ miles, and twice at 1⅛ miles.
Spectacular Bid and the Belmont Stakes.
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Three weeks later at his next start at Pimlico, an allowance race, he equalled the track record of 1:04.2. On February 3, 1980, Spectacular Bid stunned the horse racing world by winning the Strub Stakes at Santa Anita in 1:57 4/5, obliterating the world record set 30 years earlier by …
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Whatever the reason, though Spectacular Bid failed to become the 12th Triple Crown winner, that was the lone blemish on a legendary career. Spectacular Bid was the last horse to be named a champion at 2, 3 and 4. It marked the last walkover in an American Grade 1 stakes race.
Secretariat's paddock at Claiborne Farm bordered three other stallions: Drone, Sir Ivor, and Spectacular Bid.
That tune-up put him on edge for a five-length score in the Marlboro Cup Handicap over a field that included General Assembly and Coastal.
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Spectacular Bid, (foaled 1976), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in 1979 won two of the Triple Crown events: the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.Considered one of the great racers in the sport, Spectacular Bid set numerous records during his career.
He won 14 grade I stakes at 11 different tracks. Spectacular Bid had now won seven straight in 1979 heading into the Belmont Stakes. In 2010, The SPECTACULAR BID and CUPECOY’S JOY were merged into one race, won by the filly Franny Freud.Gambling Problems?
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Given nearly three months off after his Belmont defeat, Spectacular Bid returned to races with a new jockey in Hall of Famer Bill Shoemaker and posted a 17-length score in an allowance race at Delaware Park. The NEW YORK STALLION STAKES series was created by The New York …
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He notched stakes victories in the Grade III World's Playground Stakes, the Grade I Champagne Stakes, the Young America Stakes, the Grade I Laurel Futurity (in which he set a track record, a rarity for a two-year-old in a route race, running 1 ⁄16 miles in 1:41.6), a…
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