| Aztec Hill | |
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| Sire | Proud Truth |
| Grandsire | Graustark |
| Dam | Tribal Hill |
| Damsire | Cox's Ridge |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1990 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Loblolly Stable |
| Owner | Loblolly Stable |
| Trainer | Thomas Bohannan |
| Record | 25: 8-4-1 |
| Earnings | $527,748 |
| Major wins | |
| Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1993) Fantasy Stakes (1993) Honeybee Stakes (1993) Busanda Stakes (1993) Sunbonnet Stakes (1993) |
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| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
| Last updated on June 20, 2011 | |
Aztec Hill (foaled in February 1990 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. The daughter of Proud Truth will best be remembered for posting a half length score as the favorite over Traverse City in the mile and an eighth Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 14, 1993.[1] That win was the first half of only the second Black-Eyed Susan/Preakness Double won in history by the same trainer and owner combo.
In mid-January 1993 Aztec Hill won the The Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack run among three-year-old fillies at a mile and 70 yards under jockey Mike E. Smith in 1:42 2/5. Early in the spring her trainer Thomas Bohannan shipped her to the south west and won two consecutive graded stakes races at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In early March she won the grade three Honeybee Stakes run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on dirt in 1:44.40 under jockey Aaron Gryder. In early April she came right back and won the grade two Fantasy Stakes at one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt at Oaklawn Park under her regular jockey Mike E. Smith in 1:44.20. On the first Friday of May, Aztec Hill acted up in the post parade and was very fractious in the gate at Churchill Downs and never recovered as she finished a distant and disappointing seventh in the Kentucky Oaks. Late in the year Aztec Hill won the Sunbonnet Stakes.
Mid-May turned out to be a very successful time of year for Aztec Hill's owners Loblolly Stable as the Pimlico's odds maker made both Prairie Bayou the favorite in the Preakness Stakes and Aztec Hill the 3-1 favorite in the Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and both favorites went on to win. Aztec Hill won over the field of ten fillies with a tremendous rush in the homestretch that was reminiscent of some of her earlier victories in that year. Aztec Hill chased down the leaders and then held off late challenger Traverse City by a half-length. Jacody was a neck behind for third place. Aztec Hill's final time for the 8.5 furlongs was one minute, 49-3/5 seconds. Trainer Tom Bohannan said "Two weeks ago the gate got her in the Oaks and she didn't want to run, but today it was just the opposite, at Pimlico, She went into and came out with nothing but running on her mind."