Conor Pass (28 February 1970 – after 1988) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was a durable and consistent campaigner who ran at least 29 times in his three-year track career. As a juvenile in 1972 he won two minor events and was placed in several good races including the Railway Stakes. In the following year he was tried over a wide variety of distances, winning handicaps over seven furlongs and one mile before recording his biggest win in the Irish St Leger over one and three-quarter miles. He remained in training as a four-year-old and won two races including a Group 2 contest at Leopardstown Racecourse. After his retirement from racing he became a breeding stallion in Poland and had some success as a sire of winners. Background Conor Pass was a brown horse bred in Ireland by Promotion Holdings Corporation. As a yearling he was put up for auction and sold for 2,800 guineas. During his racing career he was owned by Rita Moore and trained by Kevin Prendergast. The horse was named after a mountain pass in County Kerry. He was sired by Tiepolo whose biggest win came in the Prix Herod in 1966. Tiepolo was a representative of the Byerley Turk sire line, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who descend directly from the Darley Arabian. Conor Pass's dam Windfield Lily was a winning sprinter and a descendant of the influential French broodmare Yveline. Racing career 1972: two-year-old season Conor Pass made a successful racecourse debut in a six furlong maiden race at Leopardstown Racecourse in April and followed up with a win in a minor stakes race over the same distance at Navan Racecourse in June. He failed to win in five subsequent starts but posted some solid performances in defeat, finishing second in the Enniskillen Stakes, Mullion Stakes and Probationers Stakes (to Thatch) and third in the Railway Stakes. In the Irish Free Handicap, a ranking of the best juveniles to race in Ireland in 1972, Conor Pass was assigned a weight of 126 pounds, twelve pounds behind Thatch, making him the seventh best colt. The independent Timeform organisation gave him a rating of 115, making him 15 pounds inferior to their highest-rated juvenile colts Simbir and Targowice and commented in their annual Racehorses of 1982 that he has likely to do better over longer distances. 1973: three-year-old season As a