Little Current

Little Current
Sire	Sea-Bird
Grandsire	Dan Cupid
Dam	Luiana
Damsire	My Babu
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1971
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Darby Dan Farm
Owner	Darby Dan Farm
Trainer	Lou Rondinello
Record	16: 4-3-1
Earnings	$354,704
Major wins
Everglades Stakes (1974) Triple Crown race wins: Preakness Stakes (1974) Belmont Stakes (1974)
Awards
United States Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1974)
Last updated on April 24, 2007

Everglades Stakes (1974)

Little Current (April 5, 1971 – January 19, 2003) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the final two legs of the 1974 U.S. Triple Crown both the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.

Owned and bred by John W. Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, he was out of the mare Luiana and sired by the great European champion Sea-Bird whose Timeform rating at 145 is the second highest in racing history, surpassed only by Frankel's 147.

John Galbreath and his wife owned a summer retreat at Manitoulin Island on the north shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. In 1969 they named one of their new foal's Manitoulin. Sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Tom Rolfe, the colt raced for the Galbreaths in Ireland where at the famous Curragh Racecourse he won the 1972 Royal Whip Stakes and Blandford Stakes. In 1971, the Galbreaths named another new foal for their summer home, this time for the island's town of Little Current.

Trained by Lou Rondinello and ridden by Angel Cordero, Jr., Little Current made four starts at age two but despite his breeding, showed little promise. Wintered in Florida, at age three his handlers set their sights on the 1974 Kentucky Derby. The colt won two of his first five races that spring, including the 1⅛ miles Everglades Stakes at Hialeah Park. Entered in the Blue Grass Stakes, under new rider Miguel A. Rivera he finished a disappointing fourth to Claiborne Farm's winning colt, Judger. Trained by Woody Stephens, Judger would go to the gate in the Kentucky Derby as the betting favorite.

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