This set up a title game that was favored for the defending league champion Colts.
He was the champion 3-year-old colt in France, 1970.
Boston Harbor, last year's champion 2-year-old colt, fractured a cannon bone in his first start this year and is out until at least the summer.
Boston Harbor won for the sixth time in seven starts and nailed down the title as the nation's champion 2-year-old colt.
Forty Niner's defeat marked the third straight year in which the champion 2-year-old colt has lost the first start of his 3-year-old season.
Fly So Free, the champion juvenile colt last year, is treating a bruised foot.
Arazi, already the favorite for the Kentucky Derby, was named the champion 2-year-old colt.
Favorite Trick is expected to be named last year's champion 2-year-old colt when the 1997 Eclipse Awards are announced today.
That was his sixth victory of 1996, and it clinched his election as the champion 3-year-old colt of last season.
Menow was the Champion two-year-old colt of 1937 and himself was an influential sire.