Flying Heels

Flying Heels
Sire	Flying Ebony
Grandsire	The Finn
Dam	Heeltaps
Damsire	Ultimus
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1927
Country	United States
Colour	Bay/Brown
Breeder	Gifford A. Cochran
Owner	1) Gifford A. Cochran 2) John J. Curtis
Trainer	1) Henry McDaniel 2) J. Simon Healy
Record	43: 17-16-1
Earnings	US$123,435
Major wins
Pimlico Futurity (1929) Nursery Handicap (1929) Tijuana Futurity (1929) Remsen Stakes (1929) Manhattan Handicap (1930) Delaware Handicap (1930) Carter Handicap (1930, 1931) Blemton Handicap Plate (1931) Fleetwing Handicap (1931)) Hialeah Inaugural Handicap (1932) New Hampshire Handicap (1933) Speed Handicap (1933)

Flying Heels (1927–1940) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse won stakes races at age two through six, including a number which are Grade I events today. Bred and raced by Gifford A. Cochran, he was sired by the 1925 Kentucky Derby winner, Flying Ebony and out of the racemare Heeltaps.^[1]

Flying Heels was trained for Gifford Cochran by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Henry McDaniel,^[2] but Cochran died on December 5, 1930^[3] and Flying Heels was sold by his Estate at a May 23, 1931 Fasig-Tipton dispersal sale to John J. Curtis who turned his training over to J. Simon Healy.^[4]

Flying heels won seventeen of his forty-three lfetime starts and retired from racing with earnings of $123,435. He died in a barn fire in 1940.

References

1. Flying Heels' pedigree
2. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
3. New York Times - December 6, 1930
4. New York Times - May 24, 1931