His most important successes were in two Listed races, the Star Stakes at Sandown Park and the Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy at Ripon Racecourse.

Despite his consistency, Provideo had shown himself to be an aggressive horse ("a devil to manage") and on one occasion he hospitalised a stable lad who entered his box unexpectedly.

Provideo followed up two days later at Pontefract and before the end of the month he had won a minor race at Windsor and the Listed Star Stakes at Sandown Park.

The latter race saw him equal the 20th century record of thirteen wins by a British two-year-old which had been set by the filly Nagwa in 1975 and matched by Spindrifter in 1980.

[3] Provideo made his first attempt to break the record when he was moved up to Group Three class and finished second to Petoski in the Lanson Champagne Stakes at Goodwood.

In September he finished third in the Sirenia Stakes and then contracted a minor respiratory infection which delayed his record attempt until the end of the British flat racing season.

[3] In October he won a five-runner race at Doncaster and in the last week of the season he was sent to Redcar in November for the Dinsdale Spa Stakes, a minor event with prize money of £1,452.

In their annual Racehorses of 1984 the organisation described him as "a colt who in terms of combined toughness, consistency, courage and character was without equal in Europe in 1984".