She was owned by Jack L. Finley at age two and into the early phases of her three-year-old campaign before being purchased by rap music star MC Hammer and raced under his Oaktown Stable banner.
After winning several important Grade I stakes events on the West Coast and the Grade II Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Lite Light went to Louisville, Kentucky, where she won the Kentucky Oaks against some of the best fillies in the country.
Sent north to race in New York, in the 1+1⁄8 miles (1.8 km) Mother Goose Stakes Lite Light was up against Meadow Star, whom she had lost to by a wide margin in the 1990 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
In the Mother Goose, after the two ran head-to-head from the turn at the top of the homestretch, Meadow Star won by a "lip" in a photo finish that took the officials six minutes to adjudicate.
[1] MC Hammer's financial difficulties eventually forced the sale of his stable.