Top Row
| Top Row | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Peanuts |
| Grandsire | Ambassador |
| Dam | Too High |
| Damsire | High Time |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1931 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | |
| Owner | |
| Trainer | Albert A. Baroni |
| Record | 42: 14-8-9 |
| Earnings | US$213,870 |
| Major wins | |
| (1934) Massachusetts Handicap (1935) Narragansett Special (1935) (1935) Empire City Handicap (1935) (1935) (1935 Spring Handicap (1935) (1935) (1935) Santa Anita Handicap (1936) | |
Top Row (foaled in 1931) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, during three years of racing, set two track records, one of which was a world record, and won the then world's richest horse race.
Bred by , daughter of businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner, Alexander Cassatt, Top Row was claimed by trainer for $3,500.[1] At age three in 1934 the colt set a new world record of 1:42 for a mile and a sixteenth on dirt in winning the at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California, [2] beat the great and future Hall of Fame inductee Discovery to win the prestigious Narragansett Special in 1935,[3] won the 1935 at Santa Anita Park in a track record time of 1:35 4/5 for a mile on dirt,[4] and in 1936 won the Santa Anita Handicap, the then world's richest horse race.[5] Top Row's earnings for 1936 played the major role in making his damsire High Time the Leading broodmare sire in North America.[6]
Top Row was retired to stud duty in California where he met with modest success as a sire.
References[]
- 1931 racehorse births
- Thoroughbred family 5-c
- Racehorses bred in Virginia
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Horse racing track record setters