So in "Running" as Cindy and Sue Ann get into fight mode, Sue Ann accuses Cindy of tripping her and Cindy retorts:

"Well if you hadn't have galloped in front of me, 'Spectacular Bid', it wouldn't have happened!"

Because of Cindy calling out the name of an obviously well-known racehorse from the 1970s, all my life I grew up assuming Spectacular Bid was a Triple Crown winner---but he wasn't! Thanks to my research I now know he tried, but failed in the 3rd race, the Belmont Stakes.

What if I had been on "Jeopardy!" and got a question about a 1970s Triple Crown winner, and said "Who was Spectacular Bid?" Thanks a lot, Cindy! :lol:

There was a Triple Crown winner '78, "Affirmed". So they could have changed her line to:

"Well if you hadn't have galloped in front of me, 'Affirmed', it wouldn't have happened!"

but it just doesn't have the same "oomph" to it. :lol:

Yes, Spectacular Bid "only" won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.

But maybe that's exactly what Cindy was hinting at: a horse that wins two races in a row, but comes up short in the third race. Sue Ann had won the race two years in a row, and this would be her third race...