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Airmans Guide was born in 1957 in
Kentucky, where she was by bred by horseman W. P. Little. She was sold at the Keeneland spring sale for two-year-olds in training for $ 7,500 to Hugh A. Grant, Sr. In her two-year-old season, she won the
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Williams lobbied for a division championship in the media. That year, Airmans Guide was voted
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152:$ 315,673
59:Hard Tack
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