Alywow (1991-2002) was owned and bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms near King, Ontario. Her sire was Alysheba, the 1988 American Horse of the Year and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee whose own sire was another U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Alydar. Alywow's dam was Triple Wow, a daughter of 1979 Belmont Stakes winner Coastal who was a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Majestic Prince.

Trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Roger Attfield, at age two Alywow won the Natalma Stakes on the turf course at Woodbine Racetrack. At age three in 1994, she finished third on dirt in the most important race for Canadian-bred fillies, the Woodbine Oaks but back on turf won Woodbine's Canadian Breeders' Cup Handicap and was second in the prestigious Grade I Canadian International turf race to the Juddmonte Farms colt, Raintrap. Racing in the United States, Alywow finished second in the Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap, won the Lady Dean Stakes at Pimlico Race Course and under jockey Mike Smith, came from last to first to win a division of the 1994 Nijana Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. 

Her 1994 performances earned Alywow three Sovereign Awards for Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly, Canadian Champion Turf Horse, and most prestigious of all, Canadian Horse of the Year.

Competing at age four in 1995, on the turf at Woodbine Racetrack Alywow ran second in the Sky Classic Handicp and won the Canadian Maturity Stakes. Retired to broodmare duty, Alywow produced a foal by Storm Cat in 1997 before being sold in 1998 while in foal to Mr. Prospector. Purchased by Pat O'Kelly's Kilcarn Stud near Navan in County Meath, Ireland, she produced two more foals, the first in 1999 from Danzig and another in 2000 by Sadler's Wells.

Awards:
Canadian Champion Three Year Old Filly  1994
Canadian Champion Turf Horse  1994
Canadian Horse of the Year  1994

Honours:
Alywow Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Peteski (1990-2001) won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1993. He was sired by the U.S. Triple Crown winner, Affirmed, and was out of the mare Vive, a daughter of Nureyev.

Peteski was owned and raced by American businessman and future United States Ambassador to Finland, Earle I. Mack. The colt made just one start as a 2-year-old, finishing fifth in a Maiden special weight race at Greenwood Raceway.

Following his Triple Crown win, Peteski met two of that year's U.S. Triple Crown race winners in September's Molson Million. Up against Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero and Belmont Stakes winner Colonial Affair, Peteski showed just how good he was, winning easily.

Winner of Canada's Triple Crown and the Molson Export Million, the gray son of Icecapade-Shy Spirit earned almost $2.5 million in 1990 when he established a single-season money earnings' record for a Canadian- bred three-year-old. Only Unbridled, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic, earned more money in North America than the Kinghaven Farms' colt.

Bred by Kinghaven and trained by Roger Attfield, Izvestia started twice as a juvenile, breaking his maiden at Woodbine. He was second in his first start as a 3-year-old at Gulfstream, but then flashed impressive form on the turf at Keeneland, winning the Transylvania and Forerunner Stakes at the Kentucky track. "I knew he (Izvestia) had a great deal of ability, but after he won those two stakes so impressively at Keeneland, I began to think he could sweep the Triple Crown too," said Attfield.

Izvestia arrived at Woodbine in May, winning the Heresy and Plate Trial stakes and was the overwhelming favorite in the Triple Crown, capturing the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales and Breeders' Stakes. A win in the Molson Export Million, against U.S. colts, extended his streak to eight. He finished the season with losses in the Jockey Club Cup and Breeders' Cup Classic at Belmont.

Izvestia won three Sovereign Awards in 1990. He won his first two starts at age four, taking the Canadian Club Handicap on the grass at Gulfstream and the Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine. They would be his last wins before a tragic conclusion to an exceptional career. Competing in the Rothmans International at Woodbine he suffered a broken leg in the early running and was put down after being vanned off the track. Izvestia won 11 of 21 races and was in the money in four other starts.

Awards:
Canadian Triple Crown  1990
Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Colt  1990
Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse  1990
Canadian Horse of the Year  1990

Honours:
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame  1999
Izvestia Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

In 1989 With Approval became Canada's first Triple Crown winner in 26 years, but his heroics in 1990 would surpass his feats of the previous season when he was acclaimed as one of the fastest horses on the turf in North America. Owned and bred by Kinghaven Farm, the splendid 4-year-old roan colt by Caro-Passing Mood, set a world record in New York and was involved in heart-breaking second- place finishes in the Arlington Million at Chicago and the Breeders' Cup Turf at Belmont.

With Approval thrived over Belmont's turf course, shattering the world record for 1 3/8 miles in capturing the Bowling Green Handicap. He also won the Tidal Handicap at Belmont in track-record time and was third by less than two lengths at Belmont in the Turf Classic. In the Breeders' Cup Turf he was narrowly beaten at the wire by England's In The Wings. He won the Connaught Cup at Woodbine and was third in the Sword Dancer at Belmont to round out his sensational 4-year-old season.

Undefeated in both juvenile starts in 1988, including a win in the Display Stakes, With Approval was even better at age three. Those who knew With Approval very well called him "Snoopy", because he was so laid-back. But those who watched him in action called him the "Cardiac Kid", because his racing style kept them on the edge of their seats. After wins in the Marine and Plate Trial Stakes, With Approval became just the second gray or roan to win the Queen's Plate in 130 years. But it wasn't an easy trip. Bumped, shuffled back by 15 lengths and bogged down on the rail, jockey Don Seymour finally got his colt clear and running at the top of the stretch. He won by a nose. The Prince of Wales wasn't any easier as he won by a head. The Breeders' Cup on the turf, the colt's favorite surface, was a romp for him winning by 7 1/2-lengths and earning a $1 million bonus. 

With Approval retired with a then Canadian earnings record of $2.8 million from 23 starts (13-5-1). At stud he sired 2-year-old champion Talkin Man.

Awards:
Canadian Triple Crown Champion  1989
Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Colt 1989
Candian Horse of the Year  1989

Honours:
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

Play the King (1983-1989) was bred and raced by Kinghaven Farms, he was sired by King of Spain, a descendant of the very important sire, Nearco. His dam was Whisper whose sire Laugh Aloud was a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Tom Fool.

In 1987 Play the King won several important stakes races at his home base at Woodbine Racetrack plus the Toboggan Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. His performances earned him the 1987 Sovereign Award for Champion Older Male Horse as well as the Sovereign Award for Champion Sprinter.

In 1988, Play the King notably won his second consecutive Nearctic Stakes and Toronto Breeders' Cup Handicap and ran second to Gulch in the 1988 Breeders' Cup Sprint. In addition to being voted Canadian Horse of the Year, his performances also earned him his second straight Sovereign Award for Champion Older Male Horse and for Champion Sprinter.

Awards:
Canadian Champion Older Male Horse  1987 & 1988
Canadian Champion Sprinter  1987 & 1988
Canadian Horse of the Year  1988

Honours:
Play the King Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack

Nine of his 14 victories came in stakes races. Twice he won the Carling O'Keefe Invitational Handicap and was first, second or third in 25 of his 33 starts. One of his impressive efforts was in the Coronation Futurity of 1975 when he was clocked in 1:49.1 for 1 1/8 miles, a record that still stands for the 2-year-old stakes event. Norcliffe also holds Woodbine's track record for 1 1/2 miles, 2:29.1, set in 1977 while winning the Carling O'Keefe Handicap. Norcliffe gained added respect in the Nassau County Stakes Handicap at Belmont, N.Y., that year when he was beaten less than a length by the legendary Forego.

Fell, who was in the irons when Norcliffe broke his maiden by 16 lengths, predicted the following spring he would win the Plate and told friends to ignore the colt's fourth-place finish in the Toronto Cup. The crowd made Attfield's colt the 8-to-5 favorite. Attfield, however, was concerned before that race that the colt's training schedule had been changed because of a bruised foot. "It put me off key a little bit on how to bring him to the race. I had to race him three weeks in a row at a mile and a 16th, which usually wouldn't be my ideal way of bringing a horse up to the Plate. This is a funny game. If I get beaten, I'm wrong. I won, so I did the right thing."

After Norcliffe's 4-year-old season he was purchased and syndicated by Roy Kennedy's Gateway Farms in Ocala. He later stood at Patricia Kennedy's Hyllview Stallion Station in Florida and Crescent Farm in Kentucky. Norcliffe had only seven crops get to the races before his untimely death in 1984 at age 11 at Shadowlawn Farm, Midway, Ky. In his abbreviated career Norcliffe produced 33 stakes winners. His most notable son was Groovy, who earned more than $l.3 million. Groovy was the Eclipse Award champion sprinter of 1987. Norcliffe was also the sire of At The Threshold, winner of the Arlington Classic and American Derby, and grandsire of Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee. 

Awards:
Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Colt  1976
Canadian Horse of the Year  1976
Canadian Champion Older Male Horse  1977

Honours:
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame