Police Inspector carried the silks of three owners through two provinces and four states with singular distinction.

The lifetime line on the son of Police Car - Seafair girl reads: 71 starts, 25 wins, 13 seconds and six thirds for earnings of $713,000. That places him third on the all-time list of B.C.-bred money earners behind Delta Colleen and Travelling Victor.

The dark bay horse was foaled in 1977 at the Chilliwack farm of Mr. and Mrs. James Barritt and hinted at his potential as a two-year-old when he defeated No Vices and Tudor Grove in the Juvenile. He won four of nine starts as a freshman with earnings of $27,000.

In the next five campaigns he never earned less than $103,000 and enjoyed his best season at six, when he won six races and generated $234,635.

Jack Diamond had purchased him at the CTHS sale for $11,000 and sold him late in his juvenile season to George Culley's Imperial Stable who got a couple of productive seasons out of him before selling to John Franks of Louisiana, who has one of the largest Thoroughbred empires in the U.S.

Nineteen of his wins came in stakes races and they were recorded in B.C., Alberta, Washington, California, Nebraska and Louisiana.

It is hard to know where to begin in chronicling his successses, but here is a sampling of races and tracks where he distinguished himself.

The Alberta Derby at Stampede Park, the Noor Invitational at Golden Gate, the Seattle Handicap at Longacres, the Barksdale Stakes at his favourite track, Louisiana Downs, the Gr. III Fairgrounds Classic at the Fair Grounds, and the Randall Plate, Ascot Sophmore, Derby Trial, Klondike, Richmond and Derby Trial at Exhibition Park.

He was the even money favourite in the B.C. Derby but finished out of the money, well behind Ensign Earnem. It was later learned that he had a temperature on the day of the race and it undoubtedly influenced his performance.