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Personal Ensign

1984 - Mare | Deceased
Owner(s):
Ogden Phipps  - 
Trainer:
Claude R. McGaughey III
Bred:
Kentucky (USA) by Ogden Phipps  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Private Account  -  Grecian Banner  by  Hoist The Flag
Rating:
 
 
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What the Nation is saying about Personal Ensign...

This incredible filly is at #7? Unbeatable, winning multiple G1 races including the Breeder's Cup Lady's Classic. She beat Winning Colors- the last filly to the Kentucky Derby- twice. Ridiculous how Zenyatta and Rachel are in front of her.
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  • andiggs · Yes Zenyatta would've beaten her on poly but Personal Ensign would've smoked Zenyatta on dirt. · 10 hours ago ·
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  • TampaBayDowns Fan · Haha!! Zenyatta not beating her on poly...funny! I can see how Zen is above PE, but not rachel. · 7 hours ago ·
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Many racing fans are prepared to state emphatically that Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra are two of the best, if not THE best, fillies of the past half-century. The list from which to chose, however, is longer than most think. Below is a reminder just how extensive that list is. With almost half the y...Read More
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  • travel_vic · Bayakoa, Paeana? My goodness · 128 days ago ·
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  • MarcelloMarocco · All Along, Dance Smartly, Makybe Diva, kincsem, Sunline, regret, Ruffian, Zarkava, Glorious Song. Top that! · 90 days ago ·
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They say perfection is unattainable, and as a practicing golf instructor, I’m inclined to agree, but maybe even if this is the sad reality for the human race, we can still strive to find perfection within our world. Perhaps a glimpse of our unattainable will be in store for us tonight when Black Cav...Read More
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  • New York Vinnie · If you think that ten races is ignorant then just look at the list by Bloodhorse. As far as I can gather there is just one horse, #94 Artful (1902) that raced less than ten races. All other horses raced at least ten races. · 92 days ago ·
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  • RuffianQueenOfRacing · Hey, im just trying to get my head around you saying Landaluce was great, and then you said no horse that races in under 10 races is great. Yeah she died young, but doesnt mean she could not have raced more, if she was so great, i mean im just going off what are saying sooo · 92 days ago ·
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The top females thoroughbreds are some of our favorite and most memorable. Zenyatta, Ruffian, Rachel Alexandra. Genuine Risk, Go For Wand and Personal Ensign. Twilight Tear, Gallorette and Regret. All time greats, every one of them. But who belongs in the top 10? Who belongs at the top? Jump on now ...Read More
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  • cocoa2 · You've forgotten Landaluce. · 119 days ago ·
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  • New York Vinnie · cocoa2 - many will never forget Landaluce. Me included. She was a sweet, black coated two year old filly out of Seattle Slew that captivated the west, having won five races by almost 50 lengths. She won her first race in 1:08 then came back a week later and won a Grade 1 race by 21 lengths in 1:08:1. Her last three races as a two year included race run in 1:21, 1:35 and 1:41. Uncle Mo, on the other hand, ran a 1:34.6 and and 1:42 in a mile and a mile and a sixteenth, and was considered the second coming of Spectacular Bid and Seattle Slew. Landaluce will never be forgotten. · 114 days ago ·
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This Saturday, August 6, 2011, the 84th running of The Whitney Handicap (G1) will take place at one of the great race tracks in the country, Saratoga. Here’s a look back at some of the great champions of the race ...Read More
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  • skipaway2000 · Commentator!! Amazing horse - and I did not remember his Whitneys were years apart! WOW! · 299 days ago ·
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  • SherriLytle · Love this!!! · 121 days ago ·
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Farwell to thee … A.P. Jet (21) Japanese stakes winner was a solid sire in the States. Anjiz (22) Stakes winner in England in U.S. passed away in Argentina. I saw him win the Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland. Black Tie Affair (25) The Horse of the Year of 1991 got better every year for Ernie Poulos. I sa...Read More
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  • zatt · With good reason, Tim ... two fabulous horses! · 511 days ago ·
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  • MarcelloMarocco · Dance Smartly was the one that bothered me the most. Beautiful mare, and Great racer, but she had to be euthanized after a paddock accident. Then there is Izvestia , another Canadian TC winner who was euthanized at 4 after a catastrophic injury during a race. Finally this year the passing of the best Sire since Northern dancer....Sadler's Wells. · 123 days ago ·
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Personal Ensign is #28 on the fillies and mares rankings. This fantastic mare is the only thoroughbred we have ever seen to retire undefeated--since Colin in 1908. There can be no more courageous and gutsy performance than when Personal Ensign ran down Winning Colors in the 1988 Breeders Cup Distaff to win by a nose and retire at 13 straight. All this from a mare who fractured a hind leg as a two year old and continued racing with five screws in her leg. Watch the You Tube coverage of her last race and then vote on her accordingly. Great stuff!
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  • travel_vic · Danzig was never beaten either · 158 days ago ·
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  • airedale2008 · travel_vic: Yes, you are right about these 6 as they were never beaten. What I should have said is that Personal Ensign is the only horse here in the states who ran major races to have a planned undefeated retirement. Ruffian and Landaluce were swift as the wind. I wish both had continued racing to show us more of their greatness. Raise A Native developed a bowed tendon after four races and had to be retired. Lammtarra raced four times in Great Britain. Rare Brick had eight races of which four were stakes wins. Danzig won three before he was retired due to bad knees. Personal Ensign won two G2's and eight G1's. It seems that my post of yesterday discussing her exploits has bumped her from 28th all the way to 14th. Well deserved. · 157 days ago ·
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Personal Ensign completed her undefeated career with an amazing race against Winning Colors.
Miesque became the first horse to win two consecutive Breeders' Cup Championship races when she won the...Read More
Champion older mare Zenyatta equaled Personal Ensign's mark of 13 wins without a loss when she won the Lady's Secret Stakes during the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita.Read More
Early in the summer I remember several of the Monmouth Park writers having a discussion about the quality of racing after The Haskell. Which hearkens the question: Is there life after The Haskell?Read More
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  • BrianZipse · Just saw that ... Monmouth still rolls out great racing post-Haskell, for sure! · 284 days ago ·
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  • joerada · I would agree, I think I watched a Breeders Cup Filly win the Colleen last Saturday! · 282 days ago ·
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A question almost sure to elicit a difference of opinion among avid racing fans is this: Which single race would you select as the one in which a horse looked impossibly beaten, yet somehow got up to win? If you could have wagered on who would win when the horses reached the fina...Read More
They all get beat, or so the saying goes. Eclipse never did though. In fact, the English colt retired in 1771 with a perfect record of 19-for-19 because there was no competition left to take him on. You know the saying: “Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.” Colin was undefeated, too, winning 15 straigh...Read More
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  • humphrey · There have only been about 30 unbeated t-breds since records were kept.Ajax. The Tetarch, Ribot Nearco, Flying Childers, Personal Ensign, Pharis, Herod, Hickory Ox, Asteroid, Hickory Ox, Bahram, El Rio Roy, Crucifix, Bay Middleton, Selina, Personal Ensign, Tremont, ECLIPSE WON 18, St Simon, American Eclipse, Rare Brick, Senstaion, Regulus, Landaluce, Norfolk, and relly Ruffian as she never acutally lost. · 713 days ago ·
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  • EllyEllison · Kinscem 54-54 · 337 days ago ·
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The Top Ten Active HorsesThe Top 10 Active Horses remained the same as last week, with just a few minor shifts in position after an exciting weekend of racing.Goldikova remains in 1st despite a narrow defeat at the hooves of Canford Cliffs, who broke the Top 20 this week after his win at Royal Ascot...Read More
I was just a toddler when the legend of Hoist The Flag was forged, but through the superlatives littered on him by my Dad, and the magnificence of his offspring, he became one of the most important horses of my childhood. All this despite the fact that I never saw him in person. Like Ahab's white wh...Read More
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  • sjuwill · Thank you Brian for letting everyone know what a wonderful horse he was......lighting in a bottle this horse was....you always seem to bring back some great memories.....how bout some Spannish Riddle? · 354 days ago ·
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  • BrianZipse · Thanks guys ... Bill did you get a chance to see him in person? Great suggestion, Spanish Riddle is a great story. I will need to cover him sometime · 354 days ago ·
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 This week's Top 10 has an international flair, with 3 foreign stars getting your votes. Goldikova, the French-based miler, retains the top spot. In 4th is Black Caviar, the Australian champion sprinter who is undefeated in 13 starts. Black Caviar is a five-year-old mare who smokes th...Read More
Zenyatta or Rachel Alexandra? Ruffian or Personal Ensign? Or maybe Gallorette or Goldikova? HRN asks you, who is the greatest female horse of all-time???Read More
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  • timgsmith10 · 16 G1s many in open company. 3 Breeders cup miles. Cosostent ,fast and always racing the worlds best. · 360 days ago ·
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  • timgsmith10 · Rachel Alexandra had a much better season than either of Zenyatas last 2. If you look at the stats on Goldikova vs Zenyatta . Goldikova has a much stronger record. · 360 days ago ·
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One of the top 10 mares of all time, and she is #271 here? It's nice to be educated before you vote, so why not look her up online and see how great she was?
  • arazi · She was a lot higher a few weeks ago. For some inexplicable reason, some people must be voting her down. Or voting the other horses up. · 414 days ago ·
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Sooooooo ridiculous that she is #199.
Isn't it unreal that this great mare is #184 and that every time I log on she keeps plummeting in the rankings?
  • zatt · It makes no sense at all. · 437 days ago ·
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  • footlick · I don't look anymore because most of these rankings make no sense. So many vindictive people voting not with factual analysis but with their feelings. I have my fvorite horses, but I also hope I know where they rank in the top 250 all time.. · 437 days ago ·
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Personal Ensign - Pedigree

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Private AccountDamascusSword Dancer
Kerala
Numbered AccountBuckpasser
Intriguing
Grecian BannerHoist The FlagTom Rolfe
Wavy Navy
DorineAristophanes
Doria

Personal Ensign - Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video11/05/881stR RomeroCD61 1/8 mDBreeders' Cup Ladies Classic-G103 FPersonal EnsignWinning ColorsGoodbye Halo1:52.00
View DetailsView Video10/16/881stR RomeroBel81 1/4 mDBeldame-G103+ FPersonal EnsignClassic CrownSham Say2:01.20
View DetailsView Video09/10/881stR RomeroBel81 mileDMaskette-G103+ FPersonal EnsignWinning ColorsSham Say1:34.20
View DetailsView Video08/06/881stR RomeroSar81 1/8 mDWhitney Handicap-G103+ MPersonal EnsignGulchKing's Swan1:47.80
View Details07/04/881stR RomeroMth101 1/16 mDMolly Pitcher-G203+ FPersonal EnsignGrecian FlightLe L'argent1:41.80
View DetailsView Video06/11/881stR RomeroBel71 1/8 mDHempstead Handicap-G103+ FPersonal EnsignHometown QueenClabber Girl1:47.60
View DetailsView Video05/15/881stR RomeroBel81 1/16 mDShuvee Hdcp.-G103+ FPersonal EnsignClabber GirlBishop's Delight1:41.60
View DetailsView Video10/18/871stR RomeroBel81 1/4 mDBeldame-G103+ FPersonal EnsignCoup De FusilSilent Turn2:04.40
View DetailsView Video10/10/871stR RomeroBel51 mileDRare Perfume-G203 FPersonal EnsignOne From HeavenKey Bid1:36.60
View DetailsView Video09/24/871stR RomeroBel51 mileDAllow03+ FPersonal EnsignWith A TwistRosa May1:36.20
View DetailsView Video09/06/871stJ BaileyBel57 fDAllow03+ FPersonal EnsignChic ShirineWith A Twist1:23.20
View DetailsView Video10/13/861stR RomeroBel81 mileDFrizette-G102 FPersonal EnsignCollinsFlying Katuna1:36.40
View DetailsView Video09/28/861stR RomeroBel67 fDMSW02 FPersonal EnsignGraceful DarbyNastique1:22.80

 

 

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