Blue Light (horse)
Blue Light | |
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Sire | Chop Chop |
Grandsire | Flares |
Dam | Blen Lark |
Damsire | Blenheim |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1958 |
Country | Canada |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | E. P. Taylor |
Owner | |
Trainer | |
Record | not found |
Earnings | Can$ not found |
Major wins | |
Queen's Plate (1961) | |
Last updated on February 18, 2010 |
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[]
Sire Chop Chop |
Flares | Gallant Fox | Sir Gallahad III |
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Marguerite | |||
Flambette | |||
Sceptical | Buchan | Sunstar | |
Hamoaze | |||
Clodagh | Tredennis | ||
Clare | |||
Dam Blen Lark |
Blenheim | Blanford | Swynford |
Blanche | |||
Malva | Charles O'Malley | ||
Wild Arum | |||
Light Lark | Blue Larkspur | Black Servant | |
Blossom Time | |||
Ruddy Light | Honeywood | ||
Washoe Belle (family: 9-c) |
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
- 1958 racehorse births
- Racehorses bred in Ontario
- Racehorses trained in Canada
- Queen's Plate winners
- Thoroughbred family 9-c
- Racehorse stubs