Wonderfully durable as well as brilliant, Alma North ranked among the best of her generation while competing in the early 1970s. The daughter of Northern Dancer, racing in the colors of Eugene Mori's East Acres, was a Grade 1 winner in track record time, won or placed in 35 stakes, and retired in 1974 as the second-richest Maryland-bred distaffer in history.
The career of Richard's Kid was the stuff of Hollywood dreams -- the local boy goes to California and becomes a star. Campaigned over seven years, he launched his career on the East Coast for breeder Robert Meyerhoff's Fitzhugh LLC before heading west and ranking as one of the nation's top handicap horses. A three-time Grade 1 winner of $2,482,259, the bay son of Lemon Drop Kid won stakes from 4 to 8, set track records, and was deemed worthy of trips to Dubai.
As she advanced into her 90s, Allaire duPont – the grande dame of Maryland’s Thoroughbred industry – celebrated one of the best runners she ever bred and raced, the marvelous millionaire Shine Again.