# Tosmah

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**Tosmah** (1961–1992) was a champion [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [race horse](/source/Race_horse). She was the leading American [filly](/source/Filly) of her generation at both two and three years of age.

## Background

Tosmah was bred in [Kentucky](/source/Kentucky) by [Eugene Mori](/source/Eugene_Mori). Her [sire](/source/Horse_breeding) was the great [Tim Tam](/source/Tim_Tam_(horse)), by [Tom Fool](/source/Tom_Fool) out of [Two Lea](/source/Two_Lea). Many consider Tim Tam's loss of Thoroughbred racing's [American Triple Crown](/source/United_States_Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) only a matter of fate. After winning the first two legs ([Kentucky Derby](/source/Kentucky_Derby) and [Preakness Stakes](/source/Preakness_Stakes)), he was leading in the [Belmont Stakes](/source/Belmont_Stakes) when he broke down, coming in second. Retired early, he went on as a sire, producing a number of [stakes](/source/Graded_stakes_race) winners. Tosmah is considered his very best. Her [dam](/source/Horse_breeding), Cosmah, was the 1974 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, who also produced [Halo](/source/Halo_(horse)), who sired [Sunny's Halo](/source/Sunny's_Halo) and [Sunday Silence](/source/Sunday_Silence).

## Racing career

At the age of two, she started eight times and lost once. For this, she was named the [American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Two-Year-Old_Filly) of 1963. This was before the [Eclipse Awards](/source/Eclipse_Awards) when championships were determined by the *[Daily Racing Form](/source/Daily_Racing_Form)*, *Turf and Sports Digest* magazine, and the Thoroughbred Racing Association. Tosmah was named champion by *Daily Racing Form* and *Turf and Sports Digest*, while [Castle Forbes](/source/Castle_Forbes_(horse)) took the rival Thoroughbred Racing Association award.[1]

When Tosmah was three, she started in fourteen races, winning ten, vying all year with a splendid filly called [Old Hat](/source/Old_Hat_(horse)). 1964 saw her highest earnings, $305,283, and the title of [American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly](/source/American_Champion_Three-Year-Old_Filly). She was named [American Champion Female Handicap Horse](/source/American_Champion_Older_Female_Horse) by *Daily Racing Form*.

In 1965, at the age of four she won her second [Maskette Handicap](/source/Maskette_Handicap) (now known as the [Go For Wand Handicap](/source/Go_For_Wand_Handicap)) under 128 pounds, in the process beating the great filly [Affectionately](/source/Affectionately), no. 81 in the [Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century](/source/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](/source/Lucky_Debonair), the winner of the 1965 [Kentucky Derby](/source/Kentucky_Derby), in the John B. Campbell Handicap.

## Broodmare

Of four foals, Tosmah gave birth to only one [stakes](/source/Graded_stakes_race) winner, La Guidecca.

Her short producing career was reportedly "essentially wasted due to repeated matings with her owner's indifferent stallions".[2]

She died in 1992 at the advanced age of thirty-one and is buried at Briardale Farm, Estell Manor, [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey).

Tosmah was inducted into the [Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) in 1984.

## References

1. ["Kelso Named Again as Horse-of-Year"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dDFgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t28NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3068,777635&dq=kelso+horse-of-the-year&hl=en). Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 1963-12-06. Retrieved 2012-02-27.

1. ["Tosmah (horse)"](https://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/tosmah.html). *American Classic Pedigrees*. Retrieved 2025-03-08.

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

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