- Nellie Flag
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Nellie Flag Sire American Flag Grandsire Man o War Dam Nellie Morse Damsire Luke McLuke Sex Mare Foaled 1932 Country United States Colour Bay Breeder Calumet Farm Owner Calumet Farm Trainer Bert B. Williams Record 22: 6-5-1 Earnings US$59,665 Major wins Selima Stakes (1934)
Arlington Futurity Trial (1934)
Matron Stakes (1934)
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (1934)
Cherokee Park Purse (1935)Awards American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1934) Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Nellie Flag (1932-1953) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 1934. [1] She was the first horse bred by Warren Wright's Calumet Farm to win a stakes race. [2]
An early favorite, Nellie Flag finished fourth in the 1935 Kentucky Derby [3] and seventh in the Preakness Stakes, the latter a race won by her dam in 1924. [4] Following an injury, Nellie Flag was retired in mid July of 1935 [5] and stood at Calumet Farm as a broodmare where she died in 1953 at age twenty-one. She produced ten foals of which nine raced. [6] Among her best were:
- Mar-Kell (born 1939) - American Champion Older Female Horse (1943)
- Nellie L. (born 1940) - won 1943 Kentucky Oaks, Acorn Stakes
- Sunshine Nell (born 1948) - multiple stakes wins including Barbara Fritchie Handicap, Autumn Days Handicap, Top Flight Handicap
References
Categories:- 1932 racehorse births
- 1953 racehorse deaths
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- American racehorses
- American Champion racehorses
- Individual mares
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