# Mom's Command

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{{Short description|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}
{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Mom's Command
| image  = Mom's_Command.jpg
| caption= Mom's Command at [Saratoga](/source/Saratoga_Race_Course)
| sire = Top Command
| grandsire = [Bold Ruler](/source/Bold_Ruler)
| dam = Star Mommy
| damsire = [Pia Star](/source/Pia_Star)
| sex = [Filly](/source/Filly)
| foaled = March 14, 1982<ref name=EB>{{cite web |url=https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=890820&registry=T&rbt=TB |title=Horse Profile – Mom's Command (KY) |website=equibase.com |access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref>
| country = United States
| colour = [Chestnut](/source/Chestnut_(coat))
| breeder = [Peter D. Fuller](/source/Peter_D._Fuller)<ref name=EB/>
| owner = Peter D. Fuller
| trainer = Edward T. "Ned" Allard
| record = 16: 11–2–1
| earnings= $902,972
| race = [Selima Stakes](/source/Selima_Stakes) (1984)<br>[Astarita Stakes](/source/Astarita_Stakes) (1984)<br>Priscilla Stakes (1984)<br>Faneuil Miss Stakes (1984)<br>[Coaching Club American Oaks](/source/Coaching_Club_American_Oaks) (1985)<br>[Acorn Stakes](/source/Acorn_Stakes) (1985)<br>[Mother Goose Stakes](/source/Mother_Goose_Stakes) (1985)<br>[Alabama Stakes](/source/Alabama_Stakes) (1985)<br>[Comely Stakes](/source/Comely_Stakes) (1985)<br>Cherry Blossom Handicap (1985)<br>Flirtation Stakes (1985)
| awards= [American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Three-Year-Old_Filly) (1985)<br> 6th winner of the [New York Filly Triple Tiara](/source/American_Triple_Tiara_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) (1985)<br>[New England](/source/New_England) Horse of the Year (1985)
| honours = Inducted into the racing wing of the New England Sports Hall of Fame (Summer, 2006)<br> [United States Racing Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) (2007)
| updated= February 13, 2010
}}
[[File:Top Command.jpg|thumb|''Top Command'', oil on canvas <br/>Painting by [Bob Demuyser (1920-2003)](/source/Albert_Demuyser)]]
'''Mom's Command''' (March 14, 1982 – February 3, 2007) was a multiple [Grade I](/source/Graded_stakes_race)-winning American [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [race horse](/source/race_horse). In a two-year career, she won eleven of her sixteen races.<ref>[http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=425] Racing Hall of Fame. Accessed February 13, 2011.</ref>  In 1985, she was voted [American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Three-Year-Old_Filly) at the [Eclipse Awards](/source/Eclipse_Awards).

==Background==
Her breeder and owner was [Peter D. Fuller](/source/Peter_D._Fuller) of Runnymede Farm in [North Hampton, New Hampshire](/source/North_Hampton%2C_New_Hampshire), the son of former [Massachusetts Governor](/source/Governor_of_Massachusetts) [Alvan T. Fuller](/source/Alvan_T._Fuller). Fuller (who had once been a champion boxer and wrestler at Harvard University) bred his mare Star Mommy to the stallion Top Command (by [Bold Ruler](/source/Bold_Ruler)),<ref>[http://www.pedigreequery.com/moms+command] Mom's Command five-generation pedigree. Accessed February 13, 2011.</ref> hoping to produce a foal who combined speed and stamina.  The result was Mom's Command.

The bright chestnut filly was trained by New Jersey-born Ned Allard, whose father was a professor at New York’s Juilliard School of Music.  She was ridden in all but two of her races by Peter Fuller’s daughter, [Abigail Fuller](/source/Abigail_Fuller). At 26 years of age, she became the first woman [jockey](/source/jockey) to ride the winner of a "[Triple Tiara](/source/American_Triple_Tiara_of_Thoroughbred_Racing)" event, and also the first to sweep the three races.

==Racing career==

===1984: two-year-old season===
Mom's Command won her first race, the ungraded Faneuil Miss Stakes, in July 1984 at New Hampshire’s [Rockingham Park](/source/Rockingham_Park) after going off at odds of 44-1.  After winning the Faneuil Miss, she appeared in the Grade II Astarita at [Belmont Park](/source/Belmont_Park); she broke from the starting gate five lengths behind the field and came back from last place to win.  Following the Astarita, she took the Grade I Selima Stakes by 5½ lengths.

Three of her seven starts as a two-year-old had ''[Daily Racing Form](/source/Daily_Racing_Form)'' "trouble lines" (race notes) – "steadied at start"; "poor start" and "off poorly". However, she won four of those races.

===1985: three-year-old season===
As a 3-year-old, Mom's Command dominated her competition, winning seven of her nine starts. In the [Test Stakes](/source/Test_Stakes), she finished second to another star filly, [Lady's Secret](/source/Lady's_Secret), by two lengths.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19850801&id=kRAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1240,407732] Google News article. Accessed July 21, 2014.</ref> She won the stakes which constitute the [Filly Triple Crown](/source/American_Triple_Tiara_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) – the [Acorn](/source/Acorn_Stakes), the [Mother Goose](/source/Mother_Goose_Stakes) and the [Coaching Club American Oaks](/source/Coaching_Club_American_Oaks) (the latter by 2½ lengths). She preceded her Triple Crown victories with a 19-length win in the Flirtation Stakes at [Pimlico Race Course](/source/Pimlico_Race_Course) and a second to the speedy Clocks Secret in the Goldfinch at [Garden State Park](/source/Garden_State_Park). In the Goldfinch, she raced on a "dead rail" (deep mud on the rail) for nearly the entire distance. She returned to take the Cherry Blossom Handicap at Garden State and the [Comely Stakes](/source/Comely_Stakes) at [Belmont Park](/source/Belmont_Park).  In the Comely, Clocks Secret finished six lengths behind Mom's Command; 11 lengths back was Lady’s Secret.

Following her Triple Crown, Mom's Command then won the Grade I [Alabama Stakes](/source/Alabama_Stakes), leading all the way and defeating [Fran's Valentine](/source/Fran's_Valentine) by four lengths. Fran's Valentine was the betting favorite, since she had won six of seven starts and her jockey was the well-known [Chris McCarron](/source/Chris_McCarron); however, the ''Daily Racing Form'' notes that Mom's Command was "ridden out" (winning easily, without additional urging). In 1985, Mom's Command won the [Eclipse Award](/source/Eclipse_Award) as [American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Three-Year-Old_Filly).

She was the sixth horse to win the Filly Triple Crown.  Her five predecessors were [Dark Mirage](/source/Dark_Mirage) (1968), [Shuvee](/source/Shuvee) (1969), [Chris Evert](/source/Chris_Evert_(horse)) (1974), [Ruffian](/source/Ruffian_(horse)) (1975) and [Davona Dale](/source/Davona_Dale) (1979).  Beside Mom’s Command, only Shuvee also won the Alabama Stakes (which replaced the Acorn in the "Triple Tiara", from 2003 to 2006).  The Alabama, run at Saratoga, is the filly counterpart of the Grade I [Travers Stakes](/source/Travers_Stakes). Every filly who ever beat Mom's Command was then defeated by Mom's Command (including Lady's Secret, noted above).  She won at distances ranging from five [furlong](/source/furlong)s to 1½ miles. [Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) jockey [Angel Cordero Jr.](/source/Angel_Cordero_Jr.) once said to Peter Fuller: "I love Mom's Command and I love your daughter Abby, but I'm sick of looking at both of their rear ends."<ref>[http://www.thehorse.com/articles/18120/champion-moms-command-euthanatized-at-24] TheHorse.com. Accessed July 21, 2014.</ref>

==Retirement==
[[File:Runnymede_Farm_sign_North_Hampton_NH.jpg|thumb|right|[Billboard](/source/Billboard) at Runnymede Farm in [North Hampton, New Hampshire](/source/North_Hampton%2C_New_Hampshire), featuring Mom's Command]]
Mom's Command was retired on September 29, 1985, after she injured her ankle while training for the Rare Perfume Stakes at Belmont Park. Her career earnings were $902,972. She foaled one stakes winner, Jonesboro.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=6489585&registry=T&rbt=TB |title=Horse Profile – Jonesboro (KY) |access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref> On February 3, 2007, Mom's Command was euthanized at Runnymede Farm at age 25, due to the infirmities of old age; she is buried on the farm.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20070216/news/302169986?template=ampart |title=Last remembrance of champion horse |first=Amy |last=Kane |website=seacoastonline.com |date=February 16, 2007 |access-date=June 30, 2019}}</ref>

==Honors==
Mom's Command was inducted into the racing wing of the New England Sports Hall of Fame in the summer of 2006.  She was elected to the [National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) in 2007.

==Pedigree==
{{Pedigree
|name = Mom's Command (USA), chestnut mare, 1982<ref name="pedigree">{{cite web|url=https://www.equineline.com/Free-5X-Pedigree.cfm/Mom's%20Command?page_state=DISPLAY_REPORT&reference_number=890820&registry=T&horse_name=Mom%27s%20Command&dam_name=Star%20Mommy&foaling_year=1982&include_sire_line=N&include_truenick=Y|title=Mom's Command pedigree |publisher=equineline.com |access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref>

|f = Top Command (USA)<br>1971
|m = Star Mommy (USA)<br>1972
|ff = [Bold Ruler](/source/Bold_Ruler) (USA)<br>1954
|fm = Polly Girl (FR)<br>1962
|mf = [Pia Star](/source/Pia_Star) (USA)<br>1961
|mm = Momamamu (USA)<br>1956
|fff = [Nasrullah](/source/Nasrullah_(horse))
|ffm = [Miss Disco](/source/Miss_Disco)
|fmf = Prince Bio
|fmm = [Bella Paola](/source/Bella_Paola)
|mff = [Olympia](/source/Olympia_(horse))
|mfm = Inquisitive
|mmf = Mount Marcy
|mmm = Recess
|ffff = [Nearco](/source/Nearco)
|fffm = Mumtaz Begum
|ffmf = [Discovery](/source/Discovery_(horse))
|ffmm = Outdone
|fmff = [Prince Rose](/source/Prince_Rose)
|fmfm = Biologie
|fmmf = Ticino
|fmmm = Rhea
|mfff = [Heliopolis](/source/Heliopolis_(horse))
|mffm = Miss Dolphin
|mfmf = '''[Mahmoud](/source/Mahmoud_(horse))'''
|mfmm = Swistar
|mmff = '''Mahmoud'''
|mmfm = Maud Muller
|mmmf = [Count Fleet](/source/Count_Fleet)
|mmmm = Recce
|}}

==See also==
* [Dancer's Image](/source/Dancer's_Image), another horse owned by Peter D. Fuller

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite web |url=https://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/a-farm-sale-of-integrity/ |title=A Farm Sale of Integrity |first=Carole-Terese |last=Naser |website=blogs.nytimes.com |date=June 4, 2011 |access-date=June 21, 2019}}

==External links==
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/moms+command Mom’s Command’s pedigree]
* [https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/moms-command Mom’s Command in the Hall of Fame]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGf43Gg_3a4 Saratoga 150 Feature: Mom's Command] via [YouTube](/source/YouTube)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_56o3jn98E Abby Fuller remembers Mom's Command] via YouTube

Category:1982 racehorse births
Category:2007 racehorse deaths
Category:Thoroughbred family 5-j
Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Category:Racehorses trained in the United States
Category:Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winners
Category:Eclipse Award winners
Category:United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees

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