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Mac
Diarmida made two starts at age two without a win. However, at age three he had a Championship year, winning twelve of his fourteen starts including ten in a row on grass surfaces. Ridden by
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Due to the infirmities of old age, on
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Video at YouTube of Mac
Diarmida winning the 1978 Washington, D.C. International Stakes
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Diarmida was bred by John Hartigan at his Cashel Stud farm in
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of seventy-three winners, including four stakes winners.
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for thirteen seasons before being pensioned. He was the
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