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THREE-YEAR-OLDS OF 1935 . Nellie Flag, Despite Being a Filly, Is Rated as Qualified to Duplicate Regrets Feat of Winning the Kentucky Derby Her Breeding and Credentials 0 Editors Note This is the eighth of a series of articles covering the three-year-olds of 1935. their racing credentials as juveniles and prospects during the current year. Owner, Calumet Farm. Breeder, Warren Wright. Trainer, B. B. William? g fFair Play S Hastings fMan o War Fairy Gold I Mahubah Rock Sand C Merry Token S3 o 1 " " I .fRoi Herode 5Le Samaritain -g S Lady Comfey. Roxelane C 5 . I Snoot jPerigord ?N. R. A. M fTJltimus ..3 e Commando fLuke McLuke Running Stream a Sl 4 lMidge" I Trenton SSI i Sandfly ! fAbercorn Chester o s La Venganza Cinnamon L I Colonial j Trenton Thankful Blossom Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. . 1934 record 10 5 3 0 2 7,240 By NORRIS HOYDEN. If a filly captures the 1935 Kentucky Derby, that miss must be Nellie Flag, an upstanding chestnut daughter of American Flag and Nellie Morse, owned by the Calumet Farm Stable of Warren Wright, Chicago sportsman. No other filly among the nine nominated to the Churchill Downs special has the opportunity, by right of performance, breeding and individuality, to duplicate the success of Regret in the sixty runnings of the Derby than .Nellie Flag. At the conclusion of last season the Calumet Farm miss was ranked by the experts as one of the outstanding juveniles, giving little if anything to Chance Sun and Balladier, which were placed at the top of the colts. In ten starts Nellie Flag won five victories including the Matron, Selima and Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Some good colts were among her victims in the latter event. The Derby is at one mile and a quarter, a distance which Nellie Flag gives every evidence of being able to traverse. Being of a masculine type, she may not be so susceptible to the influences of nature as are the general run of fillies during the spring. Her dam, Nellie Morse, was of the same type, being one of the few fillies to win the Preakness in all its long history. Nellie Flag began racing at Arlington Park, where she won her first two starts, beating Royal Duchess, Spanish Babe and other fillies in her debut in which she stepped five furlongs in :59. She came back a week later to defeat such promising colts as Today and Fort Springs by running six furlongs in 1:12 over a dull track, but she failed to live up to this form in the Arlington Futurity, as she went unDlaced behind Toro Nancy, St Bernard, Special Agent, Today and others. After a brief rest Nellie Flag resumed racing at Narragansett Park, where she was outsprinted by Time Flight and Mock Turtle in a pair of sprints. Fort Springs and Sailor Beware finishing behind her in the first, and Happy Helen and Minnant among others, in; the second. This pair of efforts only-served to sharpen up the daughter of American Flag for the Matron Stakes, which she won with much to spare while running the six furlongs straightaway over a muddy track in 1:10. Well behind her finished Judy OGrady, Good Gamble, Mock Turtle and other handy fillies. Nellie Flag stepped out of her division again in the Eastern Shore Handicap, and she finished second to Rosemont after being away slowly and making up much ground on the outside. Some of the best juveniles in the country finished behind her in that dash of six furlongs run in the excellent time of 1:113S. among them Go Quick. !,,:?eare sPecial Agent, Black Gift and Plat Eye. Laid away for a couple of weeks, Nellie Flag was outsprinted by Black Helen and a couple of ordinary fillies in a sprint at - o U.f She asserted her class once again in the Sehma, in which she made up ground gradually to get to the front in the stretch t11 "lgoiilg away bv nearly a length over Judy O Grady with Blossom Again third and Bird Flower fourth. Under 122 pounds she gave weight to all her dozen opponents and ran the mile in the excellent time of 1:38. She then moved to Churchill Downs to add the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes to her score at the expense of Good Flavor, Gillie and other fair colts. Under scale weight of 119 pounds, the Calumet miss stepped the mile in 1:37. Nellie proved conclusively last season that she cared for a mile better than she did six furlongs, and this trait improves her chances to .be a clever three-year-old this season. She is backed up in breeding to be a stayer with American Flag and Nellie Morse as her sire and dam. American Flag Saf,-a st class son of Man War. while Nellie Morse was as stout as fillies come One doesnt need to go further to find the reason for Nellie Flags capabilities and promise of doing something big this year
