Flight
- racehorse champion - Cox Plate winner
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 McKinnon
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 haemorrhage.
