Mom's Command

Mom's Command (1982–2007) was a multiple Grade I-winning American Thoroughbred race horse. In a career that lasted from 1984 to 1985 she won eleven of her sixteen races. In 1985 she was voted U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly at the Eclipse Awards.

Background

Her breeder and owner was Peter Fuller of Runnymede Farms in North Hampton, New Hampshire, son of a former governor of Massachusetts. Fuller (who had once been a champion boxer and wrestler at Harvard University) bred his mare Star Mommy to the stallion Top Command (by Bold Ruler), hoping to produce a foal who combined speed and stamina. The result was Mom's Command.

The bright chestnut filly was trained by New Jersey-born Ned Allard, whose father was a professor at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. She was ridden in all but two of her races by Peter Fuller’s daughter, Abigail. Abby Fuller, at 26 years of age, became the first woman jockey to ride the winner of a Triple Crown event, and also the first to sweep a Triple Crown.