Tom Fool

Tom Fool

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Tom Fool


caption =
sire = Menow
grandsire = Pharamond
dam = Gaga
damsire = Bull Dog
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1949
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Duval A. Headley
owner = Greentree Stables
Racing silks: Pink, black stripes on sleeves, black cap.
trainer = John M. Gaver, Sr.
record = 30: 21-7-1
earnings = $570,165
race = Belmont Futurity Stakes (1951)
Grand Union Hotel Stakes (1951)
Metropolitan Handicap (1953)
Suburban Handicap (1953)
Brooklyn Handicap (1953)
Whitney Handicap (1953)
Carter Handicap (1953)
Wilson Stakes (1953)
Pimlico Special (1953)
awards= U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1951)
2nd New York Handicap Triple (1953)
U.S. Champion Older Horse (1953)
U.S. Champion Sprint Horse (1953)
United States Horse of the Year (1953)
Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain/Ireland (1965)
honours = National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1960)
Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1977)
#11 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Tom Fool Handicap at Belmont Park
updated= February 7, 2007

Tom Fool (1949-1976) was an American thoroughbred horse racing Champion and Hall of Fame inductee.

Owned by Greentree Stables, the bay colt was the son of Menow out of the mare, Gaga. Tom Fool was trained by John M. Gaver, Sr. and ridden by Ted Atkinson. In his first season racing as a two-year-old, he had five wins and two seconds in seven starts, a performance that earned him Champion 2-Year-Old Colt honors for 1951.

Much was expected of Tom Fool in his three-year-old season but after finishing second in the Wood Memorial Stakes, the horse's veterinarian discovered he had been running with a high fever and the illness forced the horse out racing for more than two months. While the 1952 racing season was a difficult one, the horse still managed to win the majority of his races. In 1953, a healthy four-year-old Tom Fool showed his greatness. Undefeated in ten races, he became only the second horse to win New York's Handicap Triple: the Metropolitan, Suburban, and Brooklyn Handicaps. En route to being voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, Tom Fool also won the Whitney Stakes and captured the Pimlico Special in his final race.

As a sire

Retired to stud, with a career record of 21-7-1 in 30 starts, Tom Fool sired numerous stakes winners including:
* Tim Tam - won Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee
* Buckpasser - 1966 U.S. Horse of the Year, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee
* Tompion - multiple stakes winner, including Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, Blue Grass Stakes and Travers Stakes in 1960

Tom Fool was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1960 and in the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was ranked #11.

He died in 1976.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/tom+fool Tom Fool's pedigree]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=152 Tom Fool at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]


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