[1] Racing as a two-year-old in 1971, Susan's Girl came up against a top filly called Numbered Account.
Susan's Girl won her first races as a three-year-old, winning nine of her first thirteen starts and never finishing out of the money.
During her recovery, two European females had passed the million dollar mark: Dahlia and Allez France.
In the Matchmaker Stakes in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she set a track record, beating males as well as older females and passing a million dollars in earning, the first American filly to do so.
[1] As a broodmare, Susan's Girl produced a Grade I winner, Copelan, named after her surgeon.