Midshipman filly sails to victory at Woodbine

Showing 30-1 odds at post time, Midshipman’s two-year-old filly Her Majesty’s Flag wasn’t getting much respect at all in her first career start. Well, she’s getting all the respect now with an impressive off-the-pace win in a four and one-half furlong maiden event at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada.

Breaking out of the one hole, the chestnut juvenile gained the lead for a brief instant and then settled in at the back of the field. As the group of two-year-olds turned for home, Her Majesty’s Flag was set down for the drive by jockey Sky Chernetz was able to pull away in the final strides.

Bred by Barry Butzer’s Sun Valley Farms, Her Majesty’s Flag is owned by a partnership between Butzer and Dominion Bloodstock. She is out of the winning Point Given mare Regal Point, a half-sister to G2 winner Regally Appealing and to Stakes winner Regal Miss Copelan, dam of G2 winner and previous Darley stallion Rockport Harbor.

Midshipman won the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and G1 Del Mar Futurity en route to two-year-old championship honors as North America’s best juvenile of his year. His is also the sire of winner Sunny Yellow who also won his first-ever career start in late March.