Tosmah

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Tosmah


caption =
sire = Tim Tam
grandsire = Tom Fool
dam = Cosmah
damsire = Cosmic Bomb
sex = Filly
foaled = 1961
country = USA (Kentucky) flagicon|USA
colour = Bay
breeder = Eugene Mori
owner = Briardale Farm
Anthony Imbesi
trainer = Joe Mergler
record = 39 Starts: 23 - 6 - 2
earnings= $612,588
race = Frizette Stakes (1963)
Astarita Stakes (1963)
Mermaid Stakes (1963)
Arlington Classic (1964)
Matron Handicap (1964)
Beldame Stakes (1964)
Liberty Bell Handicap (1964)
Maskette Handicap (1964 & 1965)
Jersey Belle Tercentenary Stakes (1964)
Quaker City Handicap (1964)
Miss Woodford Stakes (1964)
Colonial Handicap (1966)
Barbara Fritchie Handicap (1966)
John B. Campbell Handicap (1966)
awards= American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1963, Daily Racing Form vote)
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (1964)
American Champion Older Female Horse (1964, sharing the honor with Old Hat)
honours = U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1984)
Tosmah Handicap at Arlington Park
updated= December 22, 2007

Tosmah (b. 1961, d. 1992) was a champion Thoroughbred race horse bred in Kentucky by Eugene Mori.

Her sire was the great Tim Tam by Tom Fool out of Two Lea. Many consider Tim Tam’s loss of Thoroughbred racing’s American Triple Crown only a matter of fate. After winning the first two legs (Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes), he was leading in the Belmont Stakes when he broke down, coming in second. Retired early, he went on as a sire, producing a number of stakes winners. Tosmah is considered his very best. Her dam, Cosmah, was the 1974 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year who also produced Halo who sired Sunny’s Halo and Sunday Silence.

Tim Tam and Cosmah’s daughter raced for four years—1963 to 1966.

At the age of two, she started eight times and lost only once. For this, she was the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 1963. (This was before the Eclipse Awards when championships were determined by the Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Racing Association. More than once these two bodies would vote for different horses. In Tosmah’s second year the Daily Racing Form considered her the best filly, while the TRA voted for a filly called Castle Forbes.)

When Tosmah was three, she started in fourteen races, winning ten, vying all year with a splendid filly called Old Hat. 1964 saw her highest earnings: $305,283 and two more championships…American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and American Champion Older Female Horse, the latter shared with Old Hat.

In 1965, at the age of four she won her second Maskette Handicap (now known as the Go For Wand Handicap) under 128 pounds and in the process beating the great filly Affectionately, no. 81 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century in a driving finish.

In her final season, Tosmah defeated Lucky Debonair, the winner of the 1965 Kentucky Derby in the John B. Campbell Handicap.

As a broodmare

Of four foals, Tosmah gave birth to only one stakes winner, La Guidecca.

She died in 1992 and is buried at Briardale Farm, Estell Manor, New Jersey.

Tosmah was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984.

References

* "Champions, The Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds, Revised Edition, Champions from 1893-2004," the Daily Racing Form
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/tosmah Tosmah’s pedigree and photo]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=154 Tosmah in the Hall of Fame]