Flight (horse)
| Flight | |
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| Sire | Royal Step |
| Grandsire | Heroic |
| Dam | Lambent (NZ) |
| Damsire | Tractor (GB) |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1940 |
| Country | Australia |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Mr C.H.J. Schmidt, Merridong Stud |
| Owner | Brian Crowley |
| Record | 65: 24 - 19 - 9 |
| Earnings | £31,429 (A$62,858) |
| Major wins | |
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Champagne Stakes (1943) Hobartville Stakes (1943) Craven Plate (1943, 1945) Adrian Knox Stakes (1944) Warwick Stakes (1944) Colin Stephen Stakes (1944) Cox Plate (1945, 1946) C F Orr Stakes (1946) St George Stakes (1946) Essenden Stakes (1946, 1947) AJC Plate (1946) LKS Mackinnon Stakes (1946) |
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| Honours | |
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Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2007) Flight Stakes at Randwick Racecourse |
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| Last updated on 14 June 2011 | |
Flight (1940–1953) was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and Russia.
She was a bay daughter of Royal Step her dam was the unplaced mare, Lambent (NZ) by Tractor (GB). A half-sister to Flight, Sparkle (NZ) by Colonel Cygnus (GB), won the 1940 Dunedin Cup. Flight was inbred to Chelandry and also to St Simon in the fourth and fifth (4x5) generations. She was purchased at the 1942 Sydney yearling sales by Brian Crowley (a future chairman of the AJC) for 60 guineas.
Front cover of the 1946 L.K.S. Mackinnon Stakes racebook.
Inside cover showing raceday officials.
Starters and results of the 1946 L.K.S.Mackinnon Stakes showing the winner,Flight.
Back cover showing Entrance & Railway charges.
A consistent performer, Flight raced at the highest level for five seasons until she was a six-year-old winning 24 races including the 1945 and 1946 MVRC W.S.Cox Plate and the 1946 VRC L.K.S. MacKinnon Stakes. She also placed in such races as the Sydney Cup, AJC Metropolitan Handicap and the AJC Chipping Norton Stakes.
Flight won her first race, the A.J.C. December Nursery. Later that season she won the A.J.C. Havilah Handicap, Rosehill Nursery Handicap, Champagne Stakes and the Victoria Park Juvenile Handicap (by 2½ lengths and carrying 9 stone 7 pounds). She was second, by a head to Mayfowl (who later won the A.J.C. St Leger), in the AJC Sires Produce Stakes, and ran third in the A.J.C. Valicare Handicap.
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