And to win the first one in a stakes race, that's even better.
Indeed, just one of the five had ever won even a minor stakes race.
Forty years later, he was still winning stakes races at 58.
He set a record by winning 70 stakes races in 1986, then came back two years later and won 92.
Among those finishes, he ran second and third in two stakes races.
He would go on to campaign 50 horses that won stakes races.
But by the end of his 4-year-old season, he had yet to win a stakes race.
He had never won a stakes race, or even run in one.
It was also his first appearance in a stakes race.
But they also offer stakes races with star horses almost every day.