Wild Again

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Wild Again (born 1980) is a thoroughbred race horse by Icecapade out of Bushel-N-Peck (by Khaled). Bred by Paule Little and owned by Black Chip Stables, he was most famous for winning the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic in 1984 over Slew o'Gold and Gate Dancer in a famous stretch run that cemented the Classic as the premier season-ending event of the year.

The dark brown colt ran in 28 races in his four-year career, winning 8, placing 7 times, and coming in third on four occasions. Over the course of his racing career, Wild Again won $2,204,829.

Aside from winning the first Breeders' Cup Classic, he won the Grade I Meadowlands Cup Handicap, the Grade II Oaklawn Handicap, and the Grade II New Orleans Handicap.

When he retired from racing, Wild Again stood at stud at Three Chimneys Farm proving a fine sire. He retired from stud duties in October of 2004.

Among his sons and daughters there are a number of exceptional names: Wilderness Song, the champion older mare in Canada, Milwaukee Brew, who won the Santa Anita Handicap twice, Sarava who won the Belmont Stakes, Oflee Wild, who bested Funny Cide more than once, except in the Kentucky Derby, Born Wild, champion three-year-old in Austria, and a host of others who were stakes winners and champions in Japan, the Dominican Republic, New Zealand, and elsewhere.