Effervescing (foaled 1973 in

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. Effervescing was a stakes winner at the age 3, 4 and 5 he was one of the first successful trainees by

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Background

Bred by

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, Effervescing was a son of the French sire Le Fabuleux whose other significant progeny included American multiple Grade I winner, The Bart and Dauphin Fabuleux, the 1984

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. He was out of the American

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eight times.

Racing career

At the age of three, at longshot odds of 24-1, Effervescing won the $112,500 Man O' War Stakes on Belmont Park's turf course on October 11, 1976 At age four, he won at

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in the turf-run Sword Dancer Handicap with future Hall of Fame jockey

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up. At the age of five, Effervescing won two $100,000+ purse stakes races within one week. He was victorious in the $110,500

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, a Grade 2 race on turf, by 3 lengths , and then in the

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on dirt, both at Hollywood Park on July 4 and July 10, 1978, respectively. Laffit Pincay Jr. was the jockey for both efforts. According to Lukas' autobiography "D. Wayne", after the American Handicap, Albert Yank, one of the owners, wanted to run the horse in a stakes race in Chicago later in the fall. When Lukas said he wanted to run the horse back in five days instead, the reply was, ''Are you drinking your own bathwater?''. Yank gave in after Lukas held his ground. Effervescing won the Eddie Read Handicap (a turf race at 9 furlongs) at

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also in 1978 with Pincay his rider again.

Stud record

Effervescing stood at

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in Kentucky. He is the sire of two Champions and sixteen stakes winners, with earnings of 4,674,623Effervescing Horse Pedigree
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References

* DeVito, Carlo. ''D. Wayne : The High-Rolling and Fast Times of America's Premier Horse Trainer'' (2002)

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