Flight
racehorse Cox Plate winner
Race
horse Flight was foaled in 1940 and was by Royal Step out of the mare
Lambent (by Tractor)
From
65 starts this champion mare won 21 times and had 19 seconds and 9
thirds and won a total of $31,185.
Her
main wins were in the 1943 Champagne
Stakes, Cox
Plate (twice in 1945 and 1946), 1946 C F Orr Stakes and 1946 Mackinnon
Stakes.
The
Group 1 ATC Flight Stakes is contested annually over 1,600 metres
for three-year-old fillies at set weights.
She
produced only five foals at stud before her death in September 1953,
due to an internal hemorrhage.
Breeder: Mr C.H.J. Schmidt, Merridong
Stud, Cudal,NSW
Owner : Brian Crowley
Cost : 60 guineas as a yearling
Trainer : Frank Nowland
Jockey (wins): J.O'Sullivan (10) J Thompson (8) E McMenamin (4) N
McGrowdie (1) R Carter (1)
Royal
Step |
Heroic |
Valais |
Chersonese |
Roseflight |
Rossendale |
Flying
Lem |
Lambent |
Tractor |
The
Tetrarch |
Gravitation |
Dazzling
Light |
Kilbroney |
Simper |
Career
Highlights:
2yo
2nd 1943 Randwick
Sires
Produce Stakes 7F
2yo Won 1943
Randwick
Champagne
Stakes 6F
3yo Won 1943
Randwick Hobartville
Stakes 7F
3yo 3rd 1943 Rosehill
Rosehill
Guineas 10F
3yo 2nd 1943 Randwick AJC
Derby 12F
4yo Won 1943
Randwick Craven
Plate 10F
4yo Won 1944
Randwick Adrian
Knox Stakes 8F
4yo 2nd 1944 Randwick
Doncaster
Hcp 8F
4yo 2nd 1944 Randwick
All
Aged Stakes
8F
4yo Won 1944
Rosehill Lord
Mayor's Cup 8F
5yo Won 1944
Randwick Warwick
Stakes 7F
5yo 3rd 1944 Rosehill
Rawson
Stakes 9F
4yo 3rd 1944 Randwick
Craven
Plate 10F
5yo Won 1944
Randwick Colin
Stephen Stakes 12F
5yo 2nd 1944 Randwick
Metropolitan
Hcp 13F
5yo 2nd 1945 Randwick
Chipping
Norton Stakes 10F
5yo 3rd 1945 Randwick
Sydney
Cup
2m
6yo 3rd 1945 Canterbury
Canterbury
Stakes 6F
6yo 2nd
1945 Randwick Tramway
Hcp 7F
6yo Won 1945
Randwick Craven
Plate 10F
6yo Won 1945
Moonee Valley W.S.
Cox Plate 10F
6yo 2nd 1945 Flemington
Mackinnon
Stakes 10F
6yo unpl 1945 Flemington
Melbourne
Cup 2m
6yo Won 1946
Williamstown C
F Orr Stakes 8F
6yo Won 1946
Caulfield St
George Stakes 9F
6yo Won 1946
Flemington Essendon Stakes 10F
6yo Won 1946
Flemington C.M. Lloyd Stakes 14F
6yo 2nd 1946 Randwick
Chipping
Norton Stakes 10F
6yo Won 1946
Randwick Queen
Elizabeth Stakes 14F
7yo 3rd 1946 Canterbury
Canterbury
Stakes 6F
7yo 2nd 1946 Rosehill
Hill
Stakes 8F
7yo 2nd 1946 Randwick
George
Main Stakes 8F
7yo Won 1946
Moonee Valley W.S. Cox
Plate 10F
7yo Won 1946
Flemington
Mackinnon
Stakes 10F
7yo Won 1947
Flemington Essendon Stakes 10F