Claim: Top Flight was owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and was the 1931 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Evidence: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Top Flight's performances earned her 1931 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors. 
Top Flight's performances earned her 1931 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors. Raced under the colors of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who had inherited Top Flight on his father's death in 1930, at age two the filly went undefeated in her seven starts and earned a record $219,000.