Triple Crown series General Assembly ran second in the Kentucky Derby and fifth in the Preakness Stakes to winner Spectacular Bid.
General Assembly won the Vosburgh Stakes and ran second again to Spectacular Bid in the Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap.
He then earned the most important victory of his career with a 15-length win in the Travers Stakes, in which he set a Saratoga track record for the mile and a quarter which stood until 2016.
[3][4] General Assembly was retired to stud duty beginning in 1980 at his owner's breeding operation in County Kildare, Ireland.
His stud farm, Gestüt Olympia in Alpen, Germany announced that the 29-year-old General Assembly had been euthanized in March 2005 due to heart and circulatory problems.