Starting in January of his second year, Hail To Reason raced 18 times in nine months, winning nine times and setting a new track record in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Race Course with jockey Bobby Ussery aboard.
Quick As Lightning's dam Clear Ceiling won five races and was a half-sister to several good winners including Misty Morn, Bold Queen (Black-Eyed Susan Stakes) and What A Pleasure (Hopeful Stakes, twice Leading sire in North America).
Graded stakes race | Preakness Stakes | Belmont Stakes | St. Leger Stakes | 2,000 Guineas Stakes | 1,000 Guineas Stakes | Washington, D.C. International Stakes | High Stakes Poker | Coronation Stakes | Bill Stutt Stakes | Ben Ali Stakes | Sabin Stakes | Peter Pan Stakes | King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes | Hambletonian Stakes | graded stakes race | Diana Stakes | Breeders' Stakes | Anne Arundel Stakes | Alister Clark Stakes | Withers Stakes | Wide Country Stakes | WEBN Stakes | Twixt Stakes | St. James's Palace Stakes | Norfolk Stakes (United States) | John Battaglia Memorial Stakes | Hopeful Stakes | HDF McNeil Stakes | Gilgai Stakes |