He started odds-on favourite but after being retrained towards the rear of the field he failed to overhaul Whip It Quick and finished second, beaten half a length by the winner.
Ridden by Lester Piggott he started the 3/1 second favourite behind Nuthatch (winner of the Nijinsky Stakes) while the other eleven runners included Shantallah (Chester Vase), Music Ville (fourth in the Irish Oaks), Sir Daniel and Quiet Fling.
Quiet Fling went to the front approaching the final furlong but Caucasus rallied to regain the lead and drew away in the closing stages to win by two lengths.
[3] At the end of the season the independent Timeform organisation gave Caucasus a rating of 127, making him ten pounds inferior to their Horse of the Year Grundy.
He won the Grade II Manhattan Handicap but then ran unplaced in the Man o' War Stakes[4] The New York Times described Caucasus as "Hollywood Park's best grass horse in 1976".
The best of his offspring were probably the fillies Videogenic winner of the 1986 Santa Ana Handicap[6] and Lake Country who was named Canadian Champion Older Female Horse in 1985.