Ohio Sire National Flag Sires First Stakes Winner

Leading Ohio second-crop sire National Flag sired his first black-type stakes winner Dec. 21 when his son Shadowy captured the Joshua Radosevich Memorial Stakes at Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course. The chestnut colt races for owner/trainer Tim Hamm, who co-bred Shadowy with Brian Kahn. National Flag stands at Meander Creek on behalf of Hamm's Blazing Meadows Farm breeding and racing operation. Shadowy has not been off the board in eight starts this year. He was stakes-placed twice—finishing third in both the Hoover Stakes and Best of Ohio Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes—before finally getting his first win Sept. 5 at Thistledown. Three races prior to the Joshua Radosevich Memorial, the colt won the non-black-type Loyalty Stakes at Belterra Park Gaming & Entertainment Center and was second in the Best of Ohio Juvenile Stakes. At Mahoning Valley, he took the lead after the opening quarter-mile and then ran away with an 8 1/2-length win. Shadowy is the first winner out of the Union Rags mare Feeling Ethereal, who was bred by Kahn and raced for Hamm and Kahn. The mare is out of the stakes-placed Gilded Time daughter Hallelujah Trail, who is the dam of two other winners. National Flag is an 8-year-old son of Speightstown who won the Bay Shore Stakes (G3) on his way to banking $240,450 in earnings. This year National Flag has sired 25 winners and three other black-type performers. His 2023 progeny earnings are $1,230,353 as of Dec. 21. He stands for $1,500.