[1] That same year he was named the country's top grass equine by being voted 1979 American Champion Male Turf Horse honors.
Later that year in May he won the Dixie Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland for his sixth straight win capturing one of the oldest trophies in American sports, the Annapolis Subscription Plate.
He won the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse in a tepid 2:51 over a very soft turf course.
Then Bowl Game wheeled back in three weeks and won the Man O' War Stakes at 1+3⁄8 miles (2.2 km) on the turf at Belmont Park in 2:19.0 even.
He also won the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack in 2:28.20 at a mile and a half.