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Nellie Flag

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Nellie Flag
SireAmerican Flag
GrandsireMan o' War
DamNellie Morse
DamsireLuke McLuke
SexMare
Foaled1932
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederCalumet Farm
OwnerCalumet Farm
TrainerBurton B. Williams
Record22: 6-5-1
EarningsUS$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)

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:

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