Hes a Smoothie Thoroughbred

Color: b

38-18-4-6

NTR Greenwood 10.50f 2:10:4, NTR WO 8.50f 1:42:2, NTR FE 8.50f 1:42:4. Winner of the Canadian International Championship at Woodbine and Canada's Horse Of The Year in 1967, He's A Smoothie was a gangly, slow developing unraced two-year-old who was given time to mature in 1965. On the May afternoon in 1966 that he broke his maiden on the dirt at Fort Erie, trainer Warren Beasley was less than complimentary of his future champion. "He ran like a camel," he commented to a Globe And Mail reporter. "He was climbing all the way." Reminded of that quote 37 years later, Beasley laughed and said, "Well, he certainly smoothed out, didn't he?" Bred by Warren's father, Bill Beasley, He's A Smoothie was by grass champion Round Table, and was out of the exceptional stakes-producing mare Ratine, the dam of Hidden Treasure, Canada's 1961 Horse Of The Year. Unlike his half-brother, He's A Smoothie didn't begin to show promise until the summer of his 3-year-old season when he won the Prince Of Wales, Seagram Cup, Fairbanks, Mohawk and Valedictory Handicaps and was second in the Breeders' Stakes and Quebec Derby. In 1967, now a mature, robust individual, he began the season with victories in the Canadian Maturity, Durham Cup, Eclipse and Seagram Cup Handicaps. He then earned international acclaim when he defeated foreign invaders in the Canadian International Championship, winning by a neck in a three-horse stretch duel. It would be 24 years before another Canadian-bred (Sky Classic) would win this prestigious event. Invited to the Washington International as Canada's representative, and facing some of the outstanding turf stars of his generation, Smoothie matched strides with future U.S. Hall of Fame inductees Damascus and Fort Marcy, giving them seven pounds each while losing by five lengths. A month later at Aqueduct, N.Y., he gave Quicken Tree nine pounds, losing by less than a length in the two-mile Display Handicap.

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