Twilight Tear

Sire:

Bull Lea

Grand Sire:

Bull Dog

Dam:

Lady Lark

Dam Sire:

Blue Larkspur

Sex:

Filly

Foaled:

1941

Birth Date:

7/25/10

Death Date:

7/25/10

Breeder:

Calumet Farm

Owner(s):

Calumet Farm

Trainer(s):

Ben A. Jones

Jockey(s):

Conn N. McCreary

Record:

24:18-2-2

Earnings:

$202,165

Major Race Wins

Arlington Lassie Stakes (1943)

Pimlico Special (1944)

Arlington Classic (1944)

Acorn Stakes (1944)

Coaching Club American Oaks (1944)

Awards / Honors

U.S. Co-Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (1943)

United States Horse of the Year (1944)

U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1944)

U.S. Champion Older Mare (1944)

United States Racing Hall of Fame (1963)

General

Twilight Tear was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred filly racehorse. At age two, she won four of her six starts, finishing second and third in her other two starts. Her performances earned her a share of 2-year-old filly honors.

At three, Twilight Tear won fourteen out of seventeen races including eleven straight, beating both fillies and colts. In the prestigious Pimlico Special she defeated Devil Diver and Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Pensive in a time that matched the record set by Seabiscuit in the 1938 race. Her dominating performance in 1944 earned her Horse of the Year honors, the first filly to do so in forty years.

In her first race at age four, Twilight Tear suffered respiratory tract problems and was retired to stand as a broodmare at Calumet Farm.

In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park, she was voted the second greatest filly in American racing history. (Gallorette was voted first.)

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