 Quickly dubbed "The Flying Filly" because of her blazing speed, she set a new track record in the Spring Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse as part of her five important wins in 1923.In her last race that year, she finished second in the Imperial Produce Stakes on a track heavy with mud.At three Mumtaz Mahal finished second in her first distance test, the 1924 1,000 Guineas, and was fifth in the Coronation Stakes.