Blue Light (horse)

Blue Light (foaled 1958 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background[]

Blue Light was a bay horse bred in Ontario by E. P. Taylor. He was sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Chop Chop. His dam, Blen Lark, was a daughter of Blenheim, the 1930 Epsom Derby winner and Leading sire in North America in 1941. Blue Light was purchased and raced by eighty-one-year-old , a decorated World War I soldier who later commanded the 48th Highlanders of Canada, who was a highly successful businessman. A long time participant in the Canadian racing industry, Marshall served as Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club and owned 1957 Canadian Horse of the Year, .

Racing career[]

Blue Light showed little promise as a two-year-old in 1960 but who won the 1961 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious race and North America's oldest annually run stakes race.^[1]

Pedigree[]

References[]

• Blue Light's pedigree and partial racing stats
• The Plate (1984) Deneau Publishers ISBN 0-88879-104-6
• June 19, 1961 Ottawa Citizen article on Blue Light winning the Queen's Plate

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