Achievements
- Won over $1.5 million in prize money
- First horse to win 2 consecutive World Cup Final titles 1988 Gothenburg and 1989 Tampa, Florida
- Team and Individual Gold medals at the 1987 Pan Am Games, Indianapolis
- Member of the 4th place Team at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
- 2nd World Cup Finals in 1986 Gothenburg
- 5th World Cup Finals in 1987 Paris
- Member of the 4th place Team at the Show Jumping World Championships, Aachen
- Winner of Masters Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows in 1987 and 1991
- Member of the 4th place Team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul
- Winner of Grand Prix of Stuttgart 1989
- Winner of Grand Prix of Bordeaux 1989
- Canadian National Show Jumping Champion 1988, 1991 and 1993
- Won the Spruce Meadows Derby 6 times in eight years (the Chrysler Classic in '86,'87 and '89 and the Shell Cup in '91,'92 and '93)
- One of only two horses inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
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