| 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 | C.H.J. Schmidt, Merridong Stud |
| Owner | Brian Crowley |
| Trainer | Frank Nowland |
| Record | 65: 24 - 19 - 9 |
| Earnings | £31,429[1] (A$62,858)[2] |
| Major wins | |
| AJC Champagne Stakes (1943) Hobartville Stakes (1943) Craven Plate (1943, 1945) Adrian Knox Stakes (1944) Warwick Stakes (1944) Colin Stephen Stakes (1944) W S Cox Plate (1945, 1946) C F Orr Stakes (1946) St George Stakes (1946) Essendon Stakes (1946, 1947) AJC Plate (1946) LKS Mackinnon Stakes (1946) | |
| Honours | |
| Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2007) Flight Stakes at Randwick Racecourse | |
| Last updated on 14 June 2011 | |
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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.
- ^ Barrie, Douglas M., The Australian Bloodhorse, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956
- ^ Pring, Peter (1977). Analysis of Champion Racehorses. The Thoroughbred Press. ISBN 0-908133-00-6.