[2][3] That performance would see Bessarabian sent off as the parimutuel betting favorite in the 1984 inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies held that year at California's Hollywood Park Racetrack.

However, coming out of the first turn of the race, Fran's Valentine veered wide and knocked another horse off stride and into Bessarabian who never recovered and finished fifth.

[4] Bessarabian began her 1985 three-year-old campaign with a win in the Hibiscus Stakes at Florida's Hialeah Park Racetrack.

[1] Following her most successful year in racing, four-year-old Bessarabian was voted the 1986 Sovereign Award for Champion Older Female Horse.

[6][7] Retired to broodmare duty, Bessarabian produced four foals, the most successful of which in racing was probably Dagda, a stakes-winning gelding born in 1992 sired by Alysheba.