Blue Light (horse)
| Blue Light | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Chop Chop |
| Grandsire | Flares |
| Dam | Blen Lark |
| Damsire | Blenheim |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1958 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | E. P. Taylor |
| Owner | Col. Kenric R. Marshall |
| Trainer | Patrick MacMurchy |
| 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
[edit]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 Col. Kenric R. Marshall, 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, Hartney.
Racing career
[edit]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
[edit]| Sire Chop Chop |
Flares | Gallant Fox | Sir Gallahad III |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marguerite | |||
| Flambino | Wrack | ||
| 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
[edit]- Blue Light's pedigree and partial racing stats
- Cauz, Louis E. 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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