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Tim Tarns Bloodlines Top Them All Both Sire, Dam Were Champions Tom Fool Horse of Year In 1953 and Two Lea Was Leader in 1949 and 1950 Tim Tam hasJthe best racing parents of any horse in the Derby. His sire, Tom Fool, was 1953s Horse of the Year, and his dam. Two Lea, tied with Wistful as champion three-year-old filly of 1949 and was then acclaimed 1950s champion handicap race mare. One could hardly improve. on this in. breeding by the race-track test. It is breeding the "best to the best" in its purest form. The Derby is a demandingrace. The final eighth of a mile, of that mile and one-quarter could be called "separation lane," for it is there that centuries of selective breeding invariably manifests itself. These last, long, punishing, lung-bursting yards separate the men from the boys with a stark realism that dictates the course of breeding for generations to come. These last crucial yards hold no fear for Tim Tam on pedigree. Tom Fool won the Suburban at that distance carrying 128 pounds, and then earned a certain imperishable distinction by winning the Brooklyn, then at 10 furlongs, under 136 pounds. It was one pound more than Exterminator carried, to victory in the same race. Only Discovery has been successful] under as heavy an impost and he won it when the stake was at 9 furlongs. Tom Fool won 21 of 30 starts and S570il35. Sire and Dam Tops Genetically Two Lea didnt win her championships by not being able to "get" 10 furlongs. In one outstanding instance she wliipped the males in the Hollywood Gold Cup and in another she nearly won a Santa Anita Handicap despite being sacrificed as a pacemaker for Citation. Among modern-day race mares, she must be ranked with Busher and Gallorette. Blessed with such a sire and dam, analyzing the rest of Tim Tarns family seems almost superfluous. But Tom FooLand Two Lea didnt become such stars without some good genetic reasons. Tom Fool is by Menow, a horse of intense speed and quality, who was fourth to Law-rin in the 1938 "Derby after having placed to Bull Lea, sire of Two Lea, in the Blue Grass Stakes. Menow is by Hyperions half brother, Pharamond -H., out of Alcibiades, winner of the 1930 Kentucky Oaks and a noted foundation dam. Tom Fools dam. Gaga, by Bull Dog— A]poise,_by Equipoise, was a modest winner, but as a producer she also foaled Aunt Jimmy, champion two-year-old filly of 1950,Alpoise, Gagas dam, never won, but she produced seven winners, including Algasir, winner of nearly a quarter of a million. The next dam, Laughing Queen, won the Selima, while her dam, Cleopatra, was a superior-race mare. Cleopatra won the Coaching Club American Oaks, Fimlico Oaks,. Champagne and Alabama and was second to none other than Man o War in the Hopeful and to Exterminator in the Saratoga Cup. Two Leas dam. Two Bob, was an obstinate and difficult but nevertheless rather talented filly. She won the Kentucky Oaks in 1936 for C. V. Whitney and, in addition to Two Lea, produced for Calumet two other remarkable daughters in Twosy and Miz Clementine. Two Lea won over 00,-000, Miz Clementine nearly that much, and Twosy over 00,000. Other aspects of Tim Tarns pedigree show that he is inbred to Bull Dog in the third generation. Gaga, Tom Fools dam, and Bull Lea, Two Leas sire, both being by that influential French-bred brother to Sir Gallahad HI. Also, Ballot, sire of Rose Leaves, Bull Leas dam, is a half brother to Ballet Girl, dam of The Porter, sire of Two Leas dam, Two Bob. Tim Tam has three crosses to Spearmint in the fifth generation. Tim Tarns pedigree is essentially American, there being.no imported horses in it until the third generation. His tail-female line, incidentally, has been producing good horses in .this country for over 100 years. In fact, Tim Tarns female family traces-directly to Reel, "The Plucky Liege" of her j age, who produced LeCompte, Prioress and, Starke. It is a pedigree of glistening names which recall stirring chapters in -American turf history for many years past. TOM FOOL— Sire of Tim Tam.
