Pass Catcher (foaled April 6, 1968 in Kentucky) was a United States Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 103rd running of the Belmont Stakes.
Pass Catcher, a bay colt was bred and raced by Peter Kissel's October House Farm.
[2] The 1971 Belmont Stakes drew a record crowd of over 80,000,[3] swelled by thousands of members of the New York City and area Latino community who came to cheer for Canonero II, the Venezuelan colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and was poised to win the U.S.
Pass Catcher was ridden in the Belmont Stakes by Hall of Fame jockey Walter Blum.
[3] At the eighth pole, Blum dropped his whip but rode the colt to an upset victory over the fast-closing Jim French and Bold Reason with the favored Canonero finishing fourth.