His dam, Wichuraiana, showed little racing ability, but was well-bred, being a half-sister of the Goodwood Cup winner Exar, and, as a descendant of the influential broodmare Black Ray, was a member of the same Thoroughbred family as Mill Reef and Blushing Groom.
He won the Group One race impressively from a field which included the Middle Park Stakes winner Hittite Glory and the leading Irish colt Malinowski.
[6] Wollow began his three-year-old season at Newbury Racecourse in April with a run in the Greenham Stakes, a recognised trial for the 2000 Guineas.
Ridden by the Italian jockey Gianfranco Dettori he took the lead a quarter of a mile from the finish and ran on strongly in the closing stages to win by one and a half lengths from Vitiges.
[10] At the end of the month he added another Group One success when he took the Sussex Stakes over one mile at Goodwood, although Poacher's Moon was considered an unlucky loser.
[3] At York in August, Wollow ran in the fifth edition of the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup, the race now known as the International Stakes.
On his final start, Wollow failed to reproduce his best form as he finished unplaced behind Vitiges in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket in October.