Wistful (horse)

Wistful
Sire	Sun Again
Grandsire	Sun Teddy
Dam	Easy Lass
Damsire	Blenheim
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1946
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Calumet Farm
Owner	Calumet Farm
Trainer	Ben A. Jones
Record	51: 13-6-10
Earnings	$213,060
Major wins
Kentucky Oaks (1949) Coaching Club American Oaks (1949) Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1949) Whirlaway Stakes (1949) Clark Handicap (1951) Ben Ali Stakes (1951) Beverly Handicap (1950) Clang Handicap (1950)
Awards
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (tie) (1949)

Wistful (foaled in 1946 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. The daughter of Sun Again and granddaughter of Sun Teddy is best remembered for wins in the Kentucky Oaks, the Coaching Club American Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. In 1949, she was voted by the country's top sports writers as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.

Wistful was born in 1946 in Kentucky. She was born in the glory days of Calumet Farm, being bred, reared and raced by the industry's standard bearer. She therefore ran her races with her jockeys wearing the "devil red Silks" of calumet. Wistful never ran as a two-year-old.

Wistful ran against three-year-old colts and won in the Whirlaway Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in March. Then she placed second in the grade one Ashland Stakes at Keeneland in April, losing to a longshot named Tall Weeds. Her connections then entered her in the first two jewels of America's de facto Filly Triple Crown: the Kentucky Oaks and the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. She won the Kentucky Oaks over The Fat Lady and Lady Dorimar in a strong field of ten fillies, then beat a field of nine in the grade two Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

In June, Wistful finished third in the Cleopatra Stakes at Arlington Park in Chicago, Illinois. In August, she won the grade one Coaching Club American Oaks at 1 3/8 miles on the dirt at Belmont Park.

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