 She then beat her male counterparts in the Aqueduct Turf Classic Invitational Stakes and the Man o' War Stakes.Against a mostly male field of top American and European horses in the Washington, D.C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, Waya ran third behind winner Mac Diarmida, whom she beat in the Man o' War Stakes.Waya was sold to Americans George Strawbridge and Peter Brant, who campaigned her in 1979.