My Flag (born in 1993 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Filly Racehorse. She was bred and owned by Ogden Phipps and trained by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Trainer Claude R. McGaughey III. She was sired by the 1988 Champion 2-Year Old Male, Hall of Famer Easy Goer, and was foaled by the undefeated champion race mare and Hall of Famer Personal Ensign. During her racing days, My Flag was known to have a...
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My Flag (born in 1993 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Filly Racehorse. She was bred and owned by Ogden Phipps and trained by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Trainer Claude R. McGaughey III. She was sired by the 1988 Champion 2-Year Old Male, Hall of Famer Easy Goer, and was foaled by the undefeated champion race mare and Hall of Famer Personal Ensign. During her racing days, My Flag was known to have a "diva personality", because she did not like to be around other horses. In order to calm her uneasy temperament, she would often be led out of the saddling area before the rest of the horses.
My Flag won four Grade 1 stakes races during her three years of racing, the biggest being the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Her victory, coming from off the pace on a muddy race track to collar the second-place finisher at the wire, was strikingly similar to Personal Ensign's 1988 Breeders' Cup Distaff triumph. My Flag collected three more G1...
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