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- ↑ Captain's Gig's pedigree and partial racing stats Pedigree Query
- ↑ Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania)- September 24, 1967
- ↑ New York Times - April 20, 1968
- ↑ Schenectady Gazette (New York) - April 29, 1968
- ↑ 1968 Kentucky Derby charts at Churchill Downs Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) - May 31, 1968
- ↑ New York Times - September 19, 1968
- ↑ New York Times - August 10, 1968