Black Tie Affair

Black Tie Affair
Black Tie Affair at stud in 1996
Sire	Miswaki
Grandsire	Mr. Prospector
Dam	Hat Tab Girl
Damsire	Al Hattab
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	April 1, 1986 - July 1, 2010 (aged 24)
Country	Ireland
Colour	Gray
Breeder	Stephen D. Peskoff
Owner	Edward P. Swyer Jeffrey Sullivan (at age 3)
Trainer	Walter Reese Ernie T. Poulos (at age 3)
Record	45: 18-9-6
Earnings	$3,370,694
Major wins
Malus Stakes (1988) Sheridan Stakes (1989) Equipoise Mile Handicap (1990) Commonwealth Breeders' Cup Stakes (1990, 1991) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1990) Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap (1991) Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap (1991) Stephen Foster Handicap (1991) Philip H. Iselin Handicap (1991) Washington Park Handicap (1991) Breeders' Cup wins: Breeders' Cup Classic (1991)
Awards
American Horse of the Year (1991)
Last updated on August 6, 2006

Malus Stakes (1988)
Sheridan Stakes (1989)
Equipoise Mile Handicap (1990)
Commonwealth Breeders' Cup Stakes (1990, 1991)
Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1990)
Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap (1991)
Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap (1991)
Stephen Foster Handicap (1991)
Philip H. Iselin Handicap (1991)
Washington Park Handicap (1991)

Breeders' Cup wins:

Black Tie Affair (April 1, 1986 – July 1, 2010) was a thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by American businessman Stephen D. Peskoff, he was out of the mare Hat Tab Girl and sired by Miswaki, who also sired Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Urban Sea and who was a two-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland.

Black Tie Affair was brought to the United States, where he was kept as a yearling at Cynthia and Walter Reese's Timber Creek Farm in New Jersey. Reese trained the colt as a 2-year-old for Edward P. Sawyer of Hudson River Farm before Black Tie Affair was sold to Jeffrey Sullivan in 1989 for $125,000 as a three-year-old on the advice of trainer Ernie T. Poulos.

Black Tie Affair was a graded stakes race winner at two, three, four, and five and earned United States Horse of the Year in 1991 along with winning the Breeders' Cup Classic that year at Churchill Downs in a wire-to-wire victory over Twilight Agenda and Unbridled with Jerry Bailey aboard.