In 1973 he was unbeaten in three starts including the Racing Post Trophy and was officially rated the best two-year-old in Britain and Ireland.

She came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 5-h which produced Ridan, Thatch, Nureyev, Fairy King and Sadler's Wells.

[6] In October Apalachee was moved up markedly in class when he was sent to England to contest the Group One Observer Gold Cup over one mile at Doncaster Racecourse.

[7] The opposition was headed by Nelson Bunker Hunt's Mississipian, an American-bred, French-trained colt who had won the Grand Critérium at Longchamp Racecourse.

Ridden by Lester Piggott, Apalachee moved to the front two furlongs from the finish with Mississipian emerging as his only challenger.

[8] Apalachee began his three-year-old season by winning the Group Three Gladness Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh in April.

The independent Timeform organisation were even more impressed with the colt, giving him a rating of 137 which made him not only the season's best two-year-old, but the joint-best horse of any age to race in Europe in 1973 (equal with Rheingold).

[11] Apalachee returned to the United States where he had a long and reasonably successful stud career at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky.