Blue Light (horse)

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

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

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 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

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.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Blue Light, bay stallion, 1958

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

• 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