©Barbara D. Livingston
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Flawlessly
Bay filly, foaled in 1988. By Affirmed—La Confidence, by Nijinsky II
Breeder:
Harbor View Farm
Owner:
Harbor View Farm
Trainer:
Dick Dutrow (1990); Charlie Whittingham (1991-1994)
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RACE RECORD
| YEAR |
AGE | STARTS |
1ST | 2ND |
3RD | EARNED |
| 1990 | 2 |
7 | 3 |
0 | 1 | $188,286 |
| 1991 | 3 |
7 | 5 |
1 | 0 | $452,550 |
| 1992 | 4 |
5 | 3 |
2 | 0 | $696,500 |
| 1993 | 5 |
5 | 4 |
0 | 0 | $886,700 |
| 1994 | 6 |
9 | 4 |
1 | 2 | $348,500 |
| TOTALS: |
33 | 19 |
4 | 3 | $2,572,536 |
Flawlessly was North America’s distaff grass course champion in both 1992 and 1993 and repeated as a grade I winner on grass again at six in 1994. Her championship campaigns included relatively few races, but they covered many months and were concentrated at the top level of competition. For trainer Dick Dutrow, Harbor View Farm's homebred Affirmed filly became a stakes winner at age two. She won the grade III Gardenia Stakes at Meadowlands and the grade III Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct. She also ran third to champion Meadow Star in the grade I Frizette.
Sent to Charlie Whittingham in California the next year, Flawlessly won four turf stakes in a row, then ran second to the older Kostroma in the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon. Flawlessly wrapped up her three-year-old season by winning the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes – the first of her three victories in that event. During the next three years, she also won three runnings of the Grade 1 Ramona Handicap, two runnings of the Grade 1 Beverly Hills Handicap, and the Grade 1 Beverly D. Handicap at Arlington Park. Along the way, Flawlessly defeated champion Hollywood Wildcat and New Zealand-bred star Let’s Elope, plus major winners Kostroma, Toussaud, Jolypha, Fire the Groom, User Friendly, Urban Sea, and Leariva.
Flawlessly retired as a stakes winner on both coasts and in the Midwest. Her 16 victories included 15 stakes races, eleven of them in graded company, and nine of them Grade 1. Flawlessly died of natural causes on September 26, 2002, and is buried at Elmwood Farm near Versailles, Kentucky. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004.
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