The chestnut filly overcame adversity to win the 67th running of the Grade II $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes over a muddy race track after losing a shoe.
Trained by Robert W. Camac, Wide Country captured three more Maryland stakes races at the end of her sophomore season on her way to state-bred championship honors.
At age four, Wide Country had a near miss in the stakes feature on Presidents' Day in 1992, finishing a neck behind the winner in the Barbara Fritchie Handicap at Laurel Park Racecourse.
In late April, Wide Country posted her only major victory of the year when she won the Grade II $125,000 Genuine Risk Handicap at Belmont Park in New York over six furlongs on the dirt.
After her retirement, Laurel Park Racecourse named a race in honor, the Wide Country Stakes, which is open to fillies age three years old and up over seven furlongs on the dirt every March.