The first Texas-bred to win the Kentucky Oaks, Valdina Myth was the leading American money winner of her age and sex as a 2-year-old. She trained on well into the spring of her 3-year-old season but tailed off thereafter. She achieved nothing of note in a short broodmare career.
Race record
24 starts, 7 wins, 4 seconds, 2 thirds, US$48,640
1940:
1941:
Assessments
Ranked fourth among American 2-year-old fillies of 1940 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Valdina Myth produced only three foals, all colts. All three were winners, but none were of any significance as racehorses or sires.
Connections
Foaled in Texas, Valdina Myth was bred and owned by Emerson Woodward's Valdina Farms. She was trained by Frank Catrone while racing in California and by J. J. Flanigan when in the East. She was ridden to her Kentucky Oaks score by George King. After Woodward's death in 1943, Valdina Myth passed to the ownership of Fred Hooper. She died in 1948.
Pedigree notes
Valdina Myth is inbred 4x3 to two-time American champion and 1909 American champion sire Ben Brush, 4x4 to two-time American Horse of the Year and 1907 American champion sire Commando and 5x4x5 to Commando's sire, 1893 American Horse of the Year Domino. Sired by 1930 Brooklyn Handicap winner Sortie (by On Watch), she is out of the winning Sweep mare Sweep Myth, who produced nothing else of any significance. Sweep Myth, in turn, is out of the unraced Peter Pan mare Dryad, a half sister to multiple stakes winner Colonel Vennie (by Picton) and to Paloma (by Golden Sun), dam of 1937 Stars and Stripes Handicap winner Corinto (by Wildair) and multiple stakes winner Manta (by Cudgel).
Dryad and her siblings are out of the imported Ayrshire mare Shy Missie, whose dam Lisdowney was by 1887 St. Leger Stakes winner Kilwarlin. The next dam in Valdina Myth's tail-female line, Isola is by the great English racehorse Isonomy out of Lonely (by Hermit), winner of the 1885 Oaks Stakes.
Books and media
Valdina Myth is profiled in Chapter 7 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Last updated: November 23, 2022
Race record
24 starts, 7 wins, 4 seconds, 2 thirds, US$48,640
1940:
- Won Santa Catalina Nursery Stakes (USA, 3FD, Santa Anita)
- Won Selima Stakes (USA, 8FD, Laurel)
- Won Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap (USA, 6FD, Hawthorne)
- 2nd Keeneland Special Event (USA, 6FD, Keeneland)
- 3rd Arlington Lassie Stakes (USA, 6FD, Arlington Park)
1941:
- Won Kentucky Oaks (USA, 9FD, Churchill Downs)
- Won Ashland Stakes (USA, 6FD, Keeneland)
Assessments
Ranked fourth among American 2-year-old fillies of 1940 by The Blood-Horse.
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Valdina Myth produced only three foals, all colts. All three were winners, but none were of any significance as racehorses or sires.
Connections
Foaled in Texas, Valdina Myth was bred and owned by Emerson Woodward's Valdina Farms. She was trained by Frank Catrone while racing in California and by J. J. Flanigan when in the East. She was ridden to her Kentucky Oaks score by George King. After Woodward's death in 1943, Valdina Myth passed to the ownership of Fred Hooper. She died in 1948.
Pedigree notes
Valdina Myth is inbred 4x3 to two-time American champion and 1909 American champion sire Ben Brush, 4x4 to two-time American Horse of the Year and 1907 American champion sire Commando and 5x4x5 to Commando's sire, 1893 American Horse of the Year Domino. Sired by 1930 Brooklyn Handicap winner Sortie (by On Watch), she is out of the winning Sweep mare Sweep Myth, who produced nothing else of any significance. Sweep Myth, in turn, is out of the unraced Peter Pan mare Dryad, a half sister to multiple stakes winner Colonel Vennie (by Picton) and to Paloma (by Golden Sun), dam of 1937 Stars and Stripes Handicap winner Corinto (by Wildair) and multiple stakes winner Manta (by Cudgel).
Dryad and her siblings are out of the imported Ayrshire mare Shy Missie, whose dam Lisdowney was by 1887 St. Leger Stakes winner Kilwarlin. The next dam in Valdina Myth's tail-female line, Isola is by the great English racehorse Isonomy out of Lonely (by Hermit), winner of the 1885 Oaks Stakes.
Books and media
Valdina Myth is profiled in Chapter 7 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Last updated: November 23, 2022