Real Quiet - Two Year-old Season

Two Year-old Season

Trained by Bob Baffert, racing as a two year-old in 1997, Real Quiet started out slow, needing seven races before getting his first win. He won his first race in a maiden special weight at Hollywood Park at eight and a half furlongs winning by 3 lengths. Later that Spring he finished third in $250,000 Indian Nations Futurity Cup at Santa Fe and the third in the $200,000 grade three Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs losing to Cape Town. He finished the year with a big score in the one million dollar Hollywood Futurity at 8.5 furlongs defeating Artax and Nationalore. He finished his two year-old season with a record of 2-0-5 in nine starts with annual earnings of $381,122.