Meadow Court was owned by Canadian businessman Max Bell and Frank McMahon, the owners of Golden West Farms, and the famous American singer, Bing Crosby.
Meadow Court had the bad luck to be born the same year as the great colt, Sea-Bird, behind whom he finished second in the 1965 Epsom Derby.
Meadow Court then gave jockey Lester Piggott his first win in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
In the autumn, starting at long odds on, Meadow Court ran second to Provoke in the St. Leger Stakes on a rain-soaked Town Moor (Doncaster).
His pacemaker, Khalife, was unable to get to the front and Meadow Court finished a distant ninth to Sea Bird.