Racing Career
A late developer, Typecast began to show contending form in 1971 at age five when she ran second in both the Beverly Hills and Ramona Handicaps and won the Las Palmas Handicap. She was six years old when she had her Champion season in which she demonstrated the unique quality, especially for a mare, of being able to win at both short and very long distances. In 1972, she won important races at her home base in California including the Gamely, Milady and Santa Monica Handicaps, all races run at distances between seven and eight and a half furlongs. However, Typecast had stiff competition that year in California's filly ranks from the 1971 U.S. Champion 3-year-old filly Turkish Trousers, who beat her in the Santa Maria and Santa Margarita Handicaps, plus from Convenience who beat her in the 1972 Vanity Handicap. With much talk by racing fans and the media as to who was the best filly, on June 17, 1972, a 1⅛ mile Match race was held at Hollywood Park Racetrack. With a $250,000 winner-take-all purse at stake, 53,575 spectators watched Typecast and Bill Shoemaker put on a thrilling battle that saw Convenience and Jerry Lambert win by a nose.
Typecast's loss in the match race was only a temporary setback as she a won over colts in the 1½ mile Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap and defeated colts again at the grueling distance of two miles in the Sunset Handicap. Her handlers also sent her to New York to compete with the best in the east where she took on the colts again, finishing second in the Manhattan Handicap and winning the prestigious Man o' War Stakes.
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