charge by Armed to win by lengths. She set a new track record of 2:01 for miles. Busher then returned to California where she lost the Will Rogers Handicap by a head to Quick Reward, to whom she conceded 11 pounds. She got her revenge in the Hollywood Derby, beating both Quick Reward and Bymeabond, who had beaten her in the Santa Anita Derby. She then won the Vanity Handicap by two lengths over older females. She finished the year with 10 wins from 13 starts, despite the war-shortened racing season. She was named the Horse of the Year, champion three-year-old filly and champion handicap mare by the Daily Racing Form. Her career earnings of $334,035 broke Top Flight’s previous earnings record for fillies. After the Vanity, Busher developed swelling in a leg, and did not race throughout 1946. She started one last time in 1947, finishing unplaced. Breeding career On February 27, 1947 as part of a divorce settlement, Mayer auctioned all his racing stock at Santa Anita track in an event that was broadcast over three radio networks. Busher went to Neil S. McCarthy, Mayer's advisor, for $135,000, meaning Mayer essentially sold the mare to himself. In a private sale in 1948, Busher was sold for a reported $150,000 to Maine Chance Farm, owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Nightingale Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden. For Arden, Busher produced four fillies and one colt. None of the fillies ever raced, though three of them (Miss Busher, Popularity and Bush Pilot) would become important stakes producers. The colt was multiple stakes winner Jet Action, by Jet Pilot. Jet Action became the broodmare sire of My Charmer, the dam of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 2000 Guineas winner Lomond. Seattle Slew was inbred to both War Admiral and Baby League through Busher and her full sister Striking. Busher died in 1955 giving birth to another Jet Pilot foal. She is buried at the Spendthrift Farm Equine Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. Honors In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park Racetrack, she was voted the sixth greatest filly in American racing history. (Gallorette was voted first.) In 1978, Aqueduct Racetrack created the Busher Stakes in her honor. Run in late February, it is an important prep race for three-year-old fillies on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. Busher was inducted into the National