 The victory made Su Mac Lad the first American horse to take the title.This was the third annual running of the race, described as having "blossomed into one of the world's blue-ribbon harness racing events".In the first American sweep in the series, the lightly regarded Tie Silk, who had finished in third the previous year and sixth the year before, won the $50,000 race in front of a crowd of 53,279.