Blue Canari
| Blue Canari | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Acatenango |
| Grandsire | Surumu |
| Dam | Delicieuse Lady |
| Damsire | Trempolino |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2 February 2001 |
| Country | France |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Meridian Stud |
| Owner | Jean-Louis Bouchard |
| Trainer | Pascal Bary |
| Record | 14: 2-0-4 |
| Earnings | £484,445 |
| Major wins | |
| Prix du Jockey Club (2004) | |
Blue Canari (foaled 2 February 2001) is a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from October 2003 until August, 2006 he ran fourteen times and won two races. He won one minor race as a two-year-old and was beaten in his first three races of 2004. In June 2004, however, he recorded an upset 33/1 victory in the Prix du Jockey Club. He failed to finish better than third in eight further races, was sold in the autumn of 2006, and became a breeding stallion in Switzerland.
Blue Canari is a chestnut horse with a small white star bred in France by the Meridian Stud. He was sired by Acatenango, a three-time German Horse of the Year whose other progeny include the Japan Cup winner Lando and the Hong Kong Vase winner Borgia. Blue Canari's dam, Delicieuse Lady, raced in Scandinavia and won four races, including one at Copenhagen in 1997. Delicieuse Lady was a daughter of Savoureuse Lady, who won the Prix Fille de l'Air and was a half-sister to Mtoto.
In August 2002, Blue Canari was consigned by the Haras du Mezeray to the Deauville yearling sale and was bought for €135,000 by the Chantilly Bloodstock Agency, acting on behalf of Jean-Louis Bouchard. The colt was sent into training with Pascal Bary and was ridden in most of his races by Thierry Thulliez.
Blue Canari began his racing career in a contest for previously unraced colts and geldings over 1600 metres at Deauville Racecourse on 21 October in which he finished third, beaten three quarters of a length and a nose by Fast And Furious and Mistral D'Arnoult. Seventeen days later, the colt started at odds of 7/2 for the Prix Mieuxce over 1800 metres at Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse and recorded his first success, taking the lead 150 metres from the finish and winning by a head from Reefscape, a colt who went on to win the Prix du Cadran.
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