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13-13-0-0, $1,679,880 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse. Personal Ensign began her racing career as a two-year-old in 1986, winning a maiden race as well as the prestigious Frizette S. at Belmont Park. A fracture to her pastern bone cut short her two-year-old season. Returning to the races late in her three-year-old year, Personal Ensign resumed her winning ways, taking four more races, including two stakes. Her biggest win that year was the Beldame Stakes against older mares. Personal Ensign shone in 1988, winning all seven of her starts. Her wins included the Shuvee Stakes, the Hempstead Stakes, the Maskette Stakes, and Beldame Stakes—all prestigious Grade I races against fillies. At Saratoga, she defeated males in the historic Whitney Handicap. Her coup de grace was a nose victory over Kentucky Derby winner Winning Colors in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, a race that is considered the most exciting finish in Breeder's Cup history. Personal Ensign was retired following the Breeder's Cup as the first undefeated champion in American racing in over 80 years.
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