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 ACCEPTABLE
won or placed in 11 of his 16 lifetime starts earning $713,019.
Missed
catching 1996 champion juvenile colt Boston Harbor (another son
of leading sire Capote), by a neck, in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile
S. [G1]. Second highweighted two-year-old on the Experimental Free Handicap.
ACCEPTABLE was an impressive Saratoga maiden winner in his second start and followed that
up with a four length allowance victory over subsequent Belmont S. [G1]
winner Touch Gold. In his final start as a two-year-old, he
fell just a neck short of victory and possibly the 2-year-old championship
in the $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile [G1]. He was weighted only
below champion Boston Harbor on the Experimental Free Handicap.
In his first start at three, he placed by a neck in the $100,000 Holy Bull
S. [G3] (defeating Captain Bodgit). He finished second to
Pulpit in the $500,000 Blue Grass S. [G2] at Keeneland. In 1998, he won
4 of 7 starts, 3 stakes, including the Kentucky Cup Classic Preview H.
[G3] by 4 lengths and the $100,000 William Donald Schaffer H.
 Won
Kentucky Cup Classic Preview Handicap [G3]
Second
by a neck in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Stakes [G1]
Won
the Fifth Seasons Breeders' Cup Stakes
Won
the William Donald Schaeffer Handicap
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