Storm Flag Flying
| Storm Flag Flying | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Storm Cat |
| Grandsire | Storm Bird |
| Dam | My Flag |
| Damsire | Easy Goer |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 2000 |
| Country | USA |
| Colour | Dark Bay |
| Breeder | Phipps Stable |
| Owner | Ogden Mills Phipps |
| Trainer | Claude R. McGaughey III |
| Record | 14: 7-3-3 |
| Earnings | $1,951,828 |
| Major wins | |
|
Matron Stakes (2002) Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (2002) |
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| Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Filly (2002) | |
| Last updated on October 21, 2006 | |
Matron Stakes (2002)
Frizette Stakes (2002)
Shuvee Handicap (2004)
Personal Ensign Handicap (2004)
Storm Flag Flying (foaled April 11, 2000 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky – January 22, 2016) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2002.
Storm Flag Flying was a bay mare who was bred in Kentucky by the Phipps Stable, which was operated at the time by Ogden Phipps. She was by leading sire Storm Cat, whose stud fee at the time was $200,000, later increased to $500,000. Storm Flag Flying's dam was My Flag, who was by champion Easy Goer and out of another champion, the undefeated Personal Ensign. Personal Ensign, My Flag and Storm Flag Flying all won Breeders' Cup races, a rare triple even in the sire line and unique for a female family.
Her dam was called "as temperamental a filly as ever put gray in a trainer's hair". Storm Flag Flying was somewhat easier to manage, though she sometimes raced erratically and did not respond well to the whip.
Ogden Phipps died in April 2002 before the filly started racing, so she was raced by his son Ogden Mills Phipps with the family's famed black and cherry silks. She was trained by Claude "Shug" McGaughey, who had also trained Easy Goer, My Flag and Personal Ensign for the Phipps family.
Storm Flag Flying made her racing debut on August 18, 2002 in a maiden special weight race at Saratoga. She won despite racing greenly, meaning she switched leads several times in the stretch and did not maintain a straight path. In her second start on September 15, she stepped up to Grade I company in the Matron Stakes and "demolished" the field by 12 3⁄4 lengths despite shying at the whip. In her third start in the Frizette Stakes on October 5, she raced more professionally and won by two lengths. McGaughey said, "I didn't want (John Velazquez) to ride her hard today, so this race was probably easier for her than the last, when she made mistakes and he had to get into her."
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