Nellie Morse
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| Nellie Morse | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Luke McLuke |
| Grandsire | Ultimus |
| Dam | La Venganza |
| Damsire | Abercorn |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | 1921 |
| Country | United States  |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Foxhall P. Keene and Cleveland |
| Owner | Bud Fisher |
| Trainer | Albert B. Gordon |
| Record | 34: 7-?-? |
| Earnings | $73,565 |
| Major Racing Wins, Awards and Honours | |
| Major Racing Wins | |
| Fashion Stakes (1923) Pimlico Oaks (1924) American Classic Race wins: |
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| Honours | |
| Nellie Morse Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse | |
| Infobox last updated on: June 28, 2007. | |
Nellie Morse (1921-1941) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the last filly to win the Preakness Stakes. Her sire was Luke McLuke, who won the 1914 Belmont Stakes and who was a son of the important but unraced Ultimus who had been sired by Commando. From the mare La Venganza, Nellie Morse's damsire was the Australian multi-race winner, Abercorn.
Owned by the prominent American cartoonist, Bud Fisher, Nellie Morse was trained for racing by Albert B. Gordon. Sent to the track at age two, the filly won the five furlong Fashion Stakes at Belmont Park and was second in the Spinaway Stakes. In the Matron Stakes she finished ahead of future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Princess Doreen but was second to Greentree Stables' winning filly, Tree Top.
In 1924, the three-year-old Nellie Morse finished second to Princess Doreen in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. She was then sent to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland where she won the 1⅛ mile Pimlico Oaks and, racing against colts, on May 12, 1924 won the second of what became the American Classic Races, the Preakness Stakes. Just the fourth filly to win the Preakness since its inception fifty-one years earlier in 1873, as at 2007 she remains the last filly to have won the race.
Retired from racing to serve as a broodmare, Nellie Morse was notably mated to Reigh Count, producing Count More, winner of the 1937 Ben Ali Stakes and Clark Handicap. As well, her mating to American Flag produced the filly Nellie Flag who was the 1934 U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Nellie Morse died in 1941 at age twenty.
