Blue Peter (American horse)

Blue Peter (1946–1950) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.

Bred and raced by Joseph M. Roebling, great-grandson of John A. Roebling, who built the Brooklyn Bridge, Blue Peter was out of the mare Carillon, a granddaughter of Teddy.

1 in the Blood-Horse magazine list of the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century.

That year, he compiled a record of eight wins and two thirds from ten starts, with several of his wins coming in the premier events against the best horses in his age group such as the Belmont Futurity Stakes, and the Hopeful Stakes.

[3] Blue Peter did not race again and he died at age four of an illness at the Aiken Training Track on January 12, 1950.