Miss Lawson Johnston, a Master of Foxhounds and Justice of the peace, sent her filly into training with Bruce Hobbs at the Palace House stable in Newmarket, Suffolk.
In the final of the Wills Embassy Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in August Cry of Truth face a rematch against Hunting Prince, the colt who had beaten her at York.
She led for most of the way and won in a juvenile course record time but was less impressive than at York, having to be driven out by Gorton to win by a length from the Norfolk Stakes runner-up Touch of Gold.
[5] Cry of Truth ended her season with a run in the Cheveley Park Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket in October, which was then the only British Group One race confined to two-year-old fillies.
Ridden as usual by Gorton, she started at odds of 4/1 in a field of fifteen with the American-bred, Irish-trained Highest Trump, the unbeaten winner of the Queen Mary Stakes going off favourite.
The other runners included Delmora, a French filly who had defeated colts to win the Prix de la Salamandre and the Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Tender Camilla from Ireland.
[1] There was no International Classification of European two-year-olds in 1974: the official handicappers of Britain, Ireland and France compiled separate rankings for horses which competed in those countries.