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Mar-Kell Sire Blenheim Grandsire Blandford Dam Nellie Flag Damsire American Flag Sex Filly Foaled 1939 Country United States Colour Bay Breeder Calumet Farm Owner Calumet Farm Trainer Ben A. Jones Record 53: 17-17-3 Earnings US$84,365 Major wins Spinaway Stakes (1941)
Beldame Handicap (1943)
Top Flight Handicap (1943)Awards American Champion Older Female Horse (1943) Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Mar-Kell (1939-1966) was an American Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Her dam was the 1934 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Nellie Flag, and her sire was the 1930 Epsom Derby winner Blenheim, who had been imported to the United States in 1937 by a syndicate that included Mar-Kell's breeder, Calumet Farm.
Mar-Kell was bred in Kentucky and was raced by Calumet Farm for four yearsm from age two through five. Trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Ben Jones, as a four-year-old, Mar-Kell's 1943 performances earned her American Champion Older Female Horse honors.
After she was retired to broodmare duty, of Mar-Kell's offspring her best known is the Calumet runner Mark-Ye-Well. Foaled in 1949, the colt had multiple wins in important stakes races including the Arlington Classic, American Derby, Lawrence Realization Stakes, and the Santa Anita Handicap.
Mar-Kell died in 1966 at age twenty-seven and was buried in the equine cemetery at Calumet Farm.
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Categories:- 1939 racehorse births
- 1966 racehorse deaths
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- American racehorses
- American Champion racehorses
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