After unsuccessful efforts at Saratoga Race Course (ridden by Pat Day) and Belmont Park, Moran turned McDynamo to Sanna Hendriks, who specializes in training steeplechasers.
[5] A crowd estimated at 45,000 at the 2004 running of the Grade 1 $175,000 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase saw McDynamo, then a 7-year-old gelding in his first race in 11 months after recovering from hock surgery, win the race for a second consecutive year, defeating Hirapour by 1+1⁄2 lengths in a finishing time of 5:06.8.
[5] He was an Eclipse Award finalist every year from 2002 to 2007, and won at least one Grade 1 steeplechase race in each of those seasons.
[8] Along with his numerous Eclipse honors and nominations, McDynamo was inducted into the National Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame[9] in Saratoga Springs, NY in 2013.
He competed in fox hunting in retirement and made many "celebrity" appearances at Fair Hill.
I was nervous with the weather coming in – he’d have a hard time on frozen ground – and it felt like the right thing to do.”[11] He was buried on the farm.