In honor of this year's San Antonio Stakes, this week's trivia question goes back to a previous winner of the race. Not content with equaling a world record in the San Antonio, he included the race in a string of five consecutive stakes won at Santa Anita. Who was he, and what were the other races he won during his streak at Santa Anita?
It's a classic showdown for California Chrome and Shared Belief in Saturday's San Antonio Stakes (USA-II). With Hoppertunity thrown into the mix as an able deputy for sore-footed Bayern, this clash for early-season supremacy rivals the Charles H. Strub Stakes (USA-I) of 1987, which featured Snow Chief, Ferdinand and Broad Brush in a repeat of their 1986 Preakness Stakes (USA-I) tangle.
In honor of this year's San Antonio Stakes, this week's trivia question goes back to a previous winner of the race. Not content with equaling a world record in the San Antonio, he included the race in a string of five consecutive stakes won at Santa Anita. Who was he, and what were the other races he won during his streak at Santa Anita?
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Kim
2/6/2015 06:34:48 pm
Hm...not a "he" but Bug Brush set a world record in the 1959 San Antonio, and added the Inglewood, margarita, Las Flores, Santa Monica, and Sequoia Handicap the same year.
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Nice try, Kim, and Bug Brush was one really good filly -- thanks for the reminder of just how good she was! She isn't in the Library yet, though, and I always play fair about answers being found in there. Also, I did specify that the horse of the correct answer equaled the world record rather than setting it and that the animal in question is male.
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