Black Tie Affair

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Black Tie Affair
sire = Miswaki
grandsire = Mr. Prospector
dam = Hat Tab Girl
damsire = Al Hattab
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1986
country = Ireland flagicon|Ireland
colour = Gray
breeder = Stephen D. Peskoff
owner = Edward P. Swyer
Jeffrey Sullivan (at age 3)
trainer = Walter Reese
Ernie T. Poulos (at age 3)
trainer = Ernie T. Poulos
record = 45: 18-9-6
earnings = $3,370,694
race = Malus Stakes (1988)
Sheridan Stakes (1989)
Equipoise Mile Handicap (1990)
Commonwealth Breeders' Cup Stakes (1990, 1991)
Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1990)
Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap (1991)
Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap (1991)
Stephen Foster Handicap (1991)
Philip H. Iselin Handicap (1991)
Washington Park Handicap (1991)

Breeders' Cup wins:
Breeders' Cup Classic (1991)
awards = American Horse of the Year (1991)
honours =
updated= August 6, 2006

Black Tie Affair (foaled April 1, 1986 in Ireland) is a thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by American businessman Stephen D. Peskoff, he was out of the mare Hat Tab Girl and sired by Miswaki, who also sired Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Urban Sea and who was a two-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland.

Black Tie Affair was brought to the United States where he stood as a yearling at Cynthia and Walter Reese's Timber Creek Farm in New Jersey. Reese trained the colt as a 2-year-old for Edward P. Swyer of Hudson River Farm before being sold to Jeffrey Sullivan in 1989 for $125,000 as a three-year-old on the advice of trainer, Ernie T. Poulos.

Black Tie Affair was a graded stakes race winner at two, three, four, and five and earned United States Horse of the Year in 1991 along with winning the Breeder's Cup Classic that year at Churchill Downs in a wire-to-wire victory over Twilight Agenda and Unbridled with Jerry Bailey aboard.

Retirement

Originally retired in 1992 to Kentucky, and sent to Japan in 1997 for stud duty, in 2003 there was some worry that Black Tie Affair might meet the same fate as the great Ferdinand, who was reportedly sent to the slaughterhouse in Japan when his stud career was over. Instead, with the help of several people, from turf enthusiasts to prominent businessmen, Black Tie Affair's ex-trainer's wife, Dee Poulos, started a campaign to bring him back to the United States.

Black Tie Affair is currently standing at stud at O'Sullivan Farms in West Virginia for a fee of $7,500.

His best known sons are Evening Attire, Formal Gold, and the multiple stakes winning filly, License Fee, along with the Japanese winner, Washington Color.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/black+tie+affair Pedigree & Partial Stats]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/stallion-directory/search_results.aspx?sf1=Black+Tie+Affair TB Times Stallion Directory]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030807/ai_n12512520 Black Tie Affair Heads Home]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/weekly-feature-articles/2004/February/07/Mid-Atlantic-In-Virginia-Black-Tie-is-back.aspx TB Times Black Tie Affair is Back]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_SkiWGMfC8 Video at YouTube of Black Tie Affair's win in the 1991 Breeders Cup Classic]

External links

* [http://osullivanfarms.org/pages/stallions.htm O'Sullivan Farms]