TEAM VALOR INTERNATIONAL | Hall of Fame

EBONY FLYER (SAF)
(2007 black filly, Jet Master (Saf) - Sunshine Lover (Saf) x Badger Land)

Champion Filly at 3 in Eastern Cape Region
Won	Majorca Stakes-Grade 1
Won	Cape Fillies Guineas.-Grade 1
Won	South African Fillies Sprint-Grade 1
Won	Odessa Stud Championship-Grade 2
Won	Diana Stakes-Grade 3
Won	Lady Slipper Stakes-Grade 3
2nd	Garden Province Stakes-Grade 1
2nd	Diadem Stakes-Grade 2
3rd	Queen's Plate-Grade 1

Ebony Flyer and her dam Sunshine Lover were purchased by Team Valor after the dam's filly of 2004, Captain's Lover, proved to be an excellent representative for the stable in winning the Odessa Stud Fillies Championship Stakes. She would later import to America and win the Grade 3 Matchmaker Stakes upon her debut.

Meanwhile, Ebony Flyer grew into a massive specimen reaching a height of 17 hands and 1 inch. She won her first four starts on the track; a maiden race, a listed stakes race, a Grade 2 stakes race and a Grade 1 stakes race, the latter of which she easily dispatched Igugu who would go on the following year to Horse of the Year honors.

Ebony Flyer met her first defeat in the Grade 1 L'Ormarins Queens Plate as a three-year-old filly facing older rivals and males. Still, she outran history and placed a highly creditable third and earned even more fans in the process.

She came back the next year to add victories in three more Graded stakes, two of which were at the Grade 1 level.

Ebony Flyer was retired early in her 5-year-old season, with plans made to breed her to the End Sweep stallion Trippi.

Visit the Video Library for EBONY FLYER