TOM FOOL (USA) b. H, 1949
{3-j} DP = 14-2-2-6-2 (26) DI = 1.89 CD = 0.77 - 30 Starts, 21 Wins, 7 Places, 1 Shows Career Earnings: $570,165
Owner: Greentree Stable (John Hay Whitney & Joan Whitney Payson) Breeder: Duval A. Headley State Bred: KY Winnings: 30 Starts: 21 - 7 - 1, $570,165
At 2: 1st Futurity S., East View S., Grand Union Hotel S., Sanford S.; 2nd Hopeful S.
At 3: 1st Grey Lag H., Empire City H., Jerome H., Wilson S., Sysonby Mile H.; 2nd Wood Memorial H., Westchester H., Roamer H., Rippey H.; 3rd Travers S.
At 5: 1st Suburban H., Sysonby Mile H., Brooklyn H., Carter H., Pimlico Special, Metropolitan H., Whitney S., Wilson S., Joe H. Palmer H.
Foaled March 31, 1949 - purchased for $20K as yearling
Champion 2yo colt
won the 1953 Handicap Triple Crown
1953 Horse of the Year, Champion Handicap Horse, Champion Sprinter
entered stud in 1954 at Greentree Stud
died August 20, 1976 at Greentree
inducted into Racing Hall of Fame 1960
sire of Buckpasser and Tim Tam