Flying Heels
Flying Heels was an American Thoroughbred racehorse won stakes races at age two through six, including a number which are Grade I events today. Bred and raced by Gifford A. Cochran, he was sired by the 1925 Kentucky Derby winner, Flying Ebony and out of the racemare Heeltaps.
Flying Heels was trained for Gifford Cochran by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Henry McDaniel, but Cochran died on December 5, 1930 and Flying Heels was sold by his Estate at a May 23, 1931 Fasig-Tipton dispersal sale to John J. Curtis who turned his training over to J. Simon Healy.
Flying heels won seventeen of his forty-three lifetime starts and retired from racing with earnings of $123,435. He died in a barn fire in 1940.
