Dark Mirage

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Dark Mirage
Sire Persian Road II
Grandsire Persian Gulf
Dam Home by Dark
Damsire Hill Prince
Sex Filly
Foaled 1965
Country United States Flag of the United States
Colour Dark Bay
Breeder Duval A. Headley
Owner Lloyd I. Miller
Trainer Everett King
Record 27: 12-3-2
Earnings $362,789
Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours
Major Racing Wins
Prioress Stakes (1968)
La Troienne Stakes (1968)
Kentucky Oaks (1968)
Acorn Stakes (1968)
Mother Goose Stakes (1968)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1968)
Monmouth Oaks (1968)
Delaware Oaks (1968)
Santa Maria Handicap (1969)
Racing Awards
1st U.S. Filly Triple Crown Champion (1968)
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1968)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1974)
Infobox last updated on: November 18, 2006.

Dark Mirage (1965-1969) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Small in stature at just 15.1 hands, Dark Mirage proved big on the race track. Although her 1967 campaign as a two-year-old produced only two minor wins in fifteen starts, at three she completely dominated her female competitors. She lost her first race then, en route to winning nine in a row, became the first winner of the Filly Triple Crown, capturing all three races with ease. Although in July her handlers decided to rest her for the remainder of the racing season, Dark Mirage's performance still earned her U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly honors.

At age four, the ill-fated Dark Mirage raced only two times. In her first race she picked up where she had left off the previous year, keeping her winning streak intact. In her next race, the filly severely injured a fetlock joint that ended her racing career and resulted in her death a few months later.

In 1974, Dark Mirage was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

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