Shortly after the Second World War, Tom Price paid £25 for a broken down point-to-point mare of uncertain parentage named Cottage Lass.
Tom Price's grandson, Richard, who ran a 400 acre livestock farm near Leominster, trained Cottage Lass's great-granddaughter Flakey Dove throughout her racing career.
On her last appearance of the National Hunt season, she started favourite for the Grade III Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock Park in May and finished third to Bitofabanter.
Flakey Dove's next season began in February when she finished second in a race at Stratford and then ran fifth in the Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury.
On 1 May, Flakey Dove recorded her best win up to that time when she defeated the former Champion Hurdler Beech Road in the Staffordshire Hurdle at Uttoxeter Racecourse.
Flakey Dove ran thirteen times in her championship season: according to Price the mare thrived on a busy racing schedule.
Ridden for the first time by Richard Dunwoody, she took the lead two hurdles from the finish and drew clear to win by twenty lengths from the Irish-trained favourite Tiananmen Square.
Dunwoody reclaimed the ride in the Berkshire Hurdle on 5 March and the mare won the Grade II event very easily by twenty lengths.
Approaching the final hurdle, Flakey Dove overtook the leader, Large Action, and ran on in the closing stages to win by one and a half lengths from Oh So Risky.
[12] The mare's win was enthusiastically received by the Cheltenham crowd and Richard Price admitted that "I had a tear in my eye" as he led Flakey Dove into the winner's enclosure.
[2] On her next appearance, Flakey Dove won a flat race at Haydock on 2 April before running in the Grade I Aintree Hurdle a week later.
On her final run of the season, Flakey Dove returned to the flat and finished unplaced in the Group Three Sagaro Stakes at Ascot.