Top Flight

Top Flight

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Top Flight


caption =
sire = Dis Donc
grandsire = Sardanapale
dam = Flyatit
damsire = Peter Pan
sex = Filly
foaled = 1929
country = United States flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = Harry Payne Whitney
owner = Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
trainer = Thomas J. Healey
record = 16: 12-0-0
earnings = $275,900
race = Saratoga Special Stakes (1931)
Spinaway Stakes (1931)
Matron Stakes (1931)
Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes (1931)
Clover Stakes (1931)
Belmont Futurity Stakes (1931)
Pimlico Futurity (1931)
Acorn Stakes (1932)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1932)
Arlington Oaks (1932)
Alabama Stakes (1932)
Ladies Handicap (1932)
awards= American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly‎ (1931)
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly‎‎ (1932)
honours = United States' Racing Hall of Fame (1966)
#66 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Top Flight Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack
updated = CURRENTTIME, CURRENTDAYNAME CURRENTMONTHNAME CURRENTDAY CURRENTYEAR (UTC)

Top Flight (April 15, 1929 - 1949) was an American U.S. Hall of Fame Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Bred in Kentucky by the very prominent horseman Harry Payne Whitney, she was a daughter of the French stakes winner Dis Donc, a son of the French Champion Sire Sardanapale. She was out of the mare Flyatit, a daughter of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Peter Pan.

Raced under the colors of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney who had inherited Top Flight on his father's death in 1930, at age two the filly went undefeated in her seven starts and earned a record $219,000. Even a muddy track couldn't stop her from winning June's Clover Stakes but her most impressive performances were wins over the top colts in the United States in the prestigious Futurity Stakes at New York's Belmont Park and the Pimlico Futurity at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Top Flight's performances earned her 1931 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly‎ honors.

Racing at age three, Top Flight won five of her nine starts with three of her losses coming against males. After finishing fourth in the Potomac Handicap she was retired as the all-time money earning filly or mare in American racing history. Her 1932 performances earned her the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly‎‎ title.

In 1966, Top Flight was inducted in the United States' Racing Hall of Fame and in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, she was ranked at No. 66.

Of interest

In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park, Top Flight was voted the fourth greatest filly in American racing history. Gallorette was voted first.

Breeding days

As a broodmare, Top Flight had limited success, producing one stakes winner from her seven foals. She died in 1949 and was buried at C. V. Whitney's farm (now part of Gainesway Farm) in Lexington, Kentucky.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/top+flight Top Flight's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=153 Top Flight at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]


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