Bred by Steve and Gary Wolfson's Happy Valley Farm, It's In The Air was from the first crop of Mr. Prospector and out of the mare A Wind Is Rising.
She won four Grade I stakes in 1979, including the Delaware Oaks and the first of two straight editions of the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Racing at age four, in addition to her win in the 1980 Vanity, It's In The Air won the El Encino Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
She did not win a stakes race in her final campaign at age five, with her best result a second to Misty Gallore in the 1981 Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack.
From her matings, she produced foals by Northern Dancer, Nijinsky, Seattle Slew, Sadler's Wells, Green Desert, Shadeed, and Zilzal.