OZONE PARK, N.Y. –  There was a sense of relief as well as pride in trainer Jason Servis’s voice Sunday morning as he talked about his 3-year-old Maximum Security, who completed what will likely be a championship season with a 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. “Crazy year,” Servis said Sunday morning by phone from Palm Meadows. “I’m not looking for another one of those in the next year, or two years, or five years. Killer year for all parties involved.” From winning a maiden $16,000 claiming race at Gulfstream last Dec. 20 to finishing first in the Kentucky Derby only to be disqualified and placed 17th for alleged interference to being hospitalized due to colic in September, Maximum Security certainly put Servis and owners Gary and Mary West through quite the ride. “I think Gary clearly was upset over the Derby, we all were,” Servis said. “It helped winning [Saturday].” Winning the Cigar Mile should help Maximum Security win the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old male. The Cigar, in which he beat Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Spun to Run handily, was Maximum Security’s third Grade 1 victory of the year to go along with prior triumphs in the Florida Derby and Haskell. He also won the Grade 3 Bold Ruler. Code of Honor has two Grade 1 wins but did finish behind Maximum Security in the Florida Derby and Kentucky Derby, before the disqualification. He also was a well-beaten seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Omaha Beach has won two Grade 1’s and will try for a third in the Malibu at Santa Anita on Dec. 26. He also won the Grade 2 Rebel. But he did miss all the major 3-year-old races from May through August. On Sept. 16, hours after Servis had entered him in the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby, Maximum Security developed a bad case of colic that forced him to scratch from that race and also spend a night in the Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center in New Jersey. “I was scared to death when he went to the clinic, I thought we were in big trouble,” Servis said. “When you have a 1,000-pound, 1,100-pound animal throwing himself all over the pace, it’s scary. Dr. Janik [Gasiorowski] did a terrific job. I thought he was going to need surgery and that would be it for the end of the year.” Servis – who until Saturday hadn’t seen Maximum Security in the flesh since the day he won the Bold Ruler on Oct. 26 at Belmont Park – and assistant trainer Henry Argueta had an inkling in the paddock Maximum Security was going to deliver a big performance. “Henry and I were talking as good as he looks, as good as he’s behaving, he was keen on, you could see it,” Servis said. “You hate to jinx yourself and say too much, but he was really spot on.” He needed to be. Spun to Run, whom Maximum Security easily defeated in the Haskell 20 weeks ago, tried to run with Maximum Security early, but he couldn’t. Spun to Run was within a half-length of Maximum Security through a half-mile in 46.17 seconds – but Maximum Security, under Luis Saez, drew away in the stretch. On a day when the track was several seconds slow, Maximum Security ran a mile in 1:36.46, good enough for a career-best 111 Beyer Speed Figure. Servis said other than leaving some feed overnight, Maximum Security came out of his Cigar Mile victory in good order physically. “Leg-wise, looked really good,” Servis said. “Left some feed which is to be expected.” Servis said Maximum Security is expected to ship to South Florida next weekend to start preparing for another year of racing, most likely starting in the Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park, a track on which Maximum Security won all four of his starts last winter including the Grade 1 Florida Derby. Spun to Run, the clear Cigar Mile runner-up, returned to Parx Saturday night and “went right to the feed tub,” trainer Juan Carlos Guerrero said Sunday morning. Guerrero said he would like to space Spun to Run’s races out a little differently next year. Guerrero said he would not run in the Pegasus but may look at the Grade 3, $250,000 General George at Laurel on Feb. 15. “I don’t think he needs a huge break, but he’s been running a lot,” Guerrero said.