Tola Rose
SireHead Play
GrandsireMy Play
DamJune Rose
DamsireMyram
SexStallion
Foaled1937
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederSuzanne Burnett Mason
OwnerArthur J. Sackett
TrainerMax Hirsch
Record76: 16-13-8
EarningsUS$96,825
Major wins
Questionnaire Handicap (1940)
Butler Memorial Handicap (1942)
Havre de Grace Handicap (1942)
Bowie Handicap (1944)

Tola Rose (foaled 1937 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several stakes races in his career but is best remembered for easily defeating U.S. Triple Crown winner Whirlaway in the 1942 running of the Butler Memorial Handicap. Ridden by Warren Mehrtens in front of a record crowd at Empire City Race Track, Tola Rose won by four lengths and did it in track record time.[1] A year earlier, Tola Rose had finished second in the 1941 Butler Memorial to Belair Stud's Foxbrough. [2]

Tola Rose was owned by Arthur J. Sackett who had been appointed President and Chairman of Mason & Hanger‐Silas Mason Company, Inc. succeeding Silas B. Mason, a fellow horse racing enthusiast who owned and bred Thoroughbreds.[3]

Tola Rose was race-conditioned by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Max Hirsch.[4][5]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Tola Rose, bay horse, 1937
Sire
Head Play		 My Play Fair Play Hastings
Fairy Gold
Mahubah Rock Sand
Merry Token
Red Head King Gorin Transvaal
Ethel Simpson
Pimenta Light Brigade
Allspice
Dam
June Rose		 Myram Flying Fox Orme
Vampire
Airs and Graces Ayrshire
Lady Alwyne
Pietra Pietermaritzburg St. Simon
Sea Air
Brian-Root Springfield
Eglentyne (family: 2-o)

References

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