Horsename: | 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: | Burton B. Williams |
Record: | 22: 6-5-1 |
Earnings: | US$59,665 |
Race: | 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) |
Nellie Flag (1932–1953) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was retrospectively named 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 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: