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Philadelphia Park Breeders’ Cup before he took another try at the Breeders' Cup Sprint. Smile won the race, equaling the stakes record set the previous year by Precisionist. Smile was named that year’s Eclipse Champion Sprinter. In 1987, he started his five-year-old season with a second in the Tropical Park Breeders’ Cup. He finished in the money in one of his next two starts. Smile’s trainer decided "...his last few races were not up to his standard and he has earned his retirement." A week after his fourth-place finish in the Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup, he was shipped back to his place of birth, Tartan Farms, to take over at stud for his sire, In Reality, who was getting on in years.
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Reality was known for being a sire of sires, so expectations were high for Smile. He first stood stud at Tartan Farms for a fee of US$ 15,000. While he produced stakes winners in the colt Smiling Time and the filly Lavender, he was not a major success and was eventually relocated to a more modest
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237:(March 26, 1982 – June 1997) was a Florida-bred racehorse born in 1982. He was sired by the stallion In Reality and was out of the Boldnesian mare Sunny Smile, who also produced the Gr. 2 winner Sunshine Today and the multiple stakes winner Charging Through.
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