1976 Hambletonian from DuQuoin Il.

First heat winner Zoot Suit was a son of 1965 winner Nevele Pride and the multiple stakes winning pacing mare Glad Rags (who was second to Meadow Skipper in his last career start). Despite his mixed gait pedigree (a trotting sire on a pacing dam) Zoot Suit became one of the foremost trotting stallions in Sweden.

Steve Lobell's 1:56 2/5 second heat was a world record for a 3-year-old; the first sub-1:57 3-year-old trotting mile.

Armbro Regina's third heat in 1:56 3/5 was a world record for a 3-year-old filly.

Winner Steve Lobell collapsed after an exhausting fourth heat race-off. This, along with the four heats needed in the 1975 race, precipitated a change in the conditions to limit the greatest number of heats to three (beginning with the 1981 race). From The Hambletonian Society

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[ColumbiaPerna]

Steve Lobell dropped moments after this race and nearly died -- only the swift action of a team of veterinarians saved his life. 

[malintuffe]

Do you have more on zoot suit, its my horse father.