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Nellie Flag

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Grandsire
  
Man o' War

Country
  
United States

Breeder
  
Calumet Farm

Species
  
Equus caballus

Parents
  
American Flag

Earnings
  
59,665 USD

Foaled
  
1932

Colour
  
Bay

Trainer
  
Bert B. Williams

Owner
  
Calumet Farm

Sex
  
Mare

Damsire
  
Luke McLuke

Nellie Flag (1932–1953) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was retrospectively named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 1934. She was the first horse bred by Warren Wright's Calumet Farm to win a stakes race.

An early favorite, Nellie Flag finished fourth in the 1935 Kentucky Derby and seventh in the Preakness Stakes, the latter a race won by her dam in 1924. Following an injury, Nellie Flag was retired in mid July 1935 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. 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

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