In mid September, Raceland won the Great Eastern Handicap at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, beating a field of sixteen of the best two-year-olds in the United States.
In 1889, he won the Suburban Handicap, at the time the most important race for older horses in the United States.
In October he again beat Firenze to win his second straight edition of the Grand National Handicap at Jerome Park Racetrack.
At age six he won the Freehold Stakes at the Long Branch Racetrack in New Jersey, and at seven won the 1892 Cherry Diamond and New York Jockey Club Handicaps at Morris Park Racecourse as well as the Delaware Handicap at Long Branch Racetrack and was still winning at age eight in 1893.
[5] On May 16, 1894, he ran third in the Myrtle Stakes at Gravesend Race Track but in June was reported by The New York Times as dying from spinal meningitis.