Gertrude Widener notably bred and raced Dan Cupid, sire of Sea Bird whose 145 Timeform rating is the highest in flat racing history.
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All was set for the 2,000 Guineas on 6 May 1995, a race run amid almost unbearable expectations (on that day's Morning Line, John McCririck said to Jim McGrath, who was strongly involved with Timeform which had said that the race was a "certainty", that if the horse did not win by at least eight lengths McGrath was finished).