# Our Flight

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{{Short description|New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

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{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Our Flight
| image = 
| caption = 
| sire = Imperial Guard
| grandsire = Brigadier Gerard
| dam = Jane Flight
| damsire = Mellay
| sex = Filly
| foaled = 1980
| country = New Zealand
| colour = Bay
| breeder = J W Rusher
| owner = J W Rusher
| trainer = Errol Skelton
| record = 19:9-3-2
| earnings = $208,725
| race = [New Zealand Derby](/source/New_Zealand_Derby) (1982)<br>[New Zealand 1000 Guineas](/source/New_Zealand_1000_Guineas)(1982)<br>[Levin Classic](/source/Levin_Classic) (1982)
|awards= 
|honours =  
|updated= February 26, 2008
}}
'''Our Flight''' is a [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [racehorse](/source/racehorse) who won the [New Zealand Derby](/source/New_Zealand_Derby) in 1982,<ref>[The Press](/source/The_Press)(Paperpast([National Library of New Zealand](/source/National_Library_of_New_Zealand))),11-August-1983, page 32,[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19830811.2.138.3 Our Flight top stake earner].</ref> one of the very few fillies to have done so in the history of the race.

Trained at Levin by Errol Skelton, the filly didn't show a great deal as a two-year-old but quickly proved herself as the champion three-year-old of the 1982–83 season. Travelling down to the Guineas meeting at Riccarton on the back of two impressive victories at Trentham, Our Flight was beaten by a nose in the [2000 Guineas](/source/New_Zealand_2000_Guineas) before asserting her dominance over the fillies in the [1000 Guineas](/source/New_Zealand_1000_Guineas) the following Saturday. Shortly after she added the [Bayer Classic](/source/LvRC_Classic) and Eulogy Stakes.

By the time she passed the post in the Derby as a narrow winner over subsequent [Auckland Cup](/source/Auckland_Cup) winner Secured Deposit, she had won eight of her ten races as a three-year-old and finished second in the other two. The Derby was her third Group 1 victory.

After the Derby she only raced twice more, and on the first of those occasions was a close third to Aulyn and Traffiker in the [New Zealand Oaks](/source/New_Zealand_Oaks).

==See also==
* [Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand](/source/Thoroughbred_racing_in_New_Zealand)

==References==
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Category:1980 racehorse births
Category:Racehorses bred in New Zealand
Category:Racehorses trained in New Zealand
Category:Thoroughbred family 13-a

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