Twilight Tear
| Twilight Tear | |
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| Sire | #59 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century |
| Last updated on October 8, 2006 | |
Twilight Tear (1941–1954) was an American
2-year-old filly honors in a poll by Turf and Sports Digest magazine.[1] The rival Daily Racing Form
award was won by Durazna.
At three, Twilight Tear won fourteen out of seventeen races including eleven straight, beating both fillies and colts. In the prestigious
Horse of the Year by both the Daily Racing Form[2] and the Turf and Sport Digest. In the latter poll she received 121 of the possible 154 votes, with the second-placed Pavot receiving 20.[3]
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.)
References
- ^ "Count Fleet is horse of year". Tuscaloosa News. December 17, 1943. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ "Twilight Tear Horse of Year". Miami News. 1944-12-04. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
- ^ "Tear voted outstanding 1944 Horse". St. Petersburg Times. 1944-12-18. Retrieved 2012-02-27.