Aztec Hill

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Aztec Hill
Sire Proud Truth
Grandsire Graustark
DamTribal Hill
Damsire Cox's Ridge
Sex Mare
Foaled1990
Country United States
Colour Bay
Breeder Loblolly Stable
Owner Loblolly Stable
Trainer Thomas Bohannan
Record25: 8-4-1
Earnings$527,748
Major wins
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1993)
Fantasy Stakes (1993)
Honeybee Stakes (1993)
Busanda Stakes (1993)
Sunbonnet Stakes (1993)
Last updated on June 20, 2011

Aztec Hill (foaled in February 1990 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. The daughter of Proud Truth is probably best remembered for posting a half length score as the favorite over Traverse City in the mile and an eighth Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 14, 1993. [1] That win was the first half of only the second Black-Eyed Susan/Preakness Stakes Double won in history by the same trainer and owner combo.

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Racing career

In mid-January 1993, Aztec Hill won The Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack run among three-year-old fillies at a mile and 70 yards under jockey Mike E. Smith in 1:42 2/5. Early in the spring, her trainer, Thomas Bohannan, shipped her to the southwest and won two consecutive graded stakes races at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In early March, she won the grade three Honeybee Stakes run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on dirt in 1:44.40 under jockey Aaron Gryder. In early April, she won the grade two Fantasy Stakes at one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt at Oaklawn Park under her regular jockey, Mike E. Smith, in 1:44.20. On the first Friday of May, Aztec Hill acted up in the post parade and was very fractious in the gate at Churchill Downs. She never recovered as she finished a distant seventh in the Kentucky Oaks. Late in the year Aztec Hill won the Sunbonnet Stakes.

The Busanda Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race that is held at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York in mid-January each year; the 42nd outing was held in 2015.

Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in the South Ozone Park and Jamaica neighborhoods of Queens, New York City. Its racing meets are usually from late October/early November through April. The racetrack is located adjacent to a casino called Resorts World New York City.

Mike E. Smith American jockey

Michael Earl Smith is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003, and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 26 Breeders' Cup wins. Smith is also the second leading jockey of all time in earnings with over $312 million. In 2018, Smith rode Justify to the Triple Crown, becoming the oldest jockey to win the title at age 52.

Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

Mid-May turned out to be a very successful time of year for Aztec Hill's owners Loblolly Stable, as the Pimlico's odds maker made both Prairie Bayou the favorite in the Preakness Stakes and Aztec Hill the 3-1 favorite in the Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. Both favorites won.

Loblolly Stable was a Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing stable in Lake Hamilton, Arkansas owned by businessman John Ed Anthony and his former wife Mary Lynn. The stable's first top runner was Cox's Ridge who won important races in 1977 and 1978 and went on to become an excellent sire. Loblolly Stable had back-to-back wins in the Preakness Stakes in 1992 and 1993 with Pine Bluff and Prairie Bayou respectively and also won the 1980 Belmont Stakes with Temperence Hill.

Pimlico Race Course American thoroughbred horse racetrack

Pimlico Race Course is a thoroughbred horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Its name is derived from the 1660s when English settlers named the area where the facility currently stands in honor of Olde Ben Pimlico's Tavern in London. The racetrack is nicknamed "Old Hilltop" after a small rise in the infield that became a favorite gathering place for thoroughbred trainers and race enthusiasts. It is currently owned by Maryland Jockey Club.

Prairie Bayou was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse owned and bred by Loblolly Stable of Lake Hamilton, Arkansas. Named for a bayou between Little Rock and Hot Springs in Arkansas, he was sired by Little Missouri and out of the mare Whiffling. Owned by Loblolly Stable, after Prairie Bayou's success on the racetrack, including the 1993 Preakness Stakes, Calumet Farm purchased Whiffling in foal to Danzig for $1,050,000 at the 1994 Keeneland November Sale.

Aztec Hill beat a field of ten fillies, holding off late challenger Traverse City by a half-length. Jacody was a neck behind for third place. Aztec Hill's final time for the 8.5 furlongs was one minute, 49-3/5 seconds. Trainer Tom Bohannan said "Two weeks ago the gate got her in the Oaks and she didn't want to run, but today it was just the opposite, at Pimlico, She went into and came out with nothing but running on her mind."

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