Jack Ketch (horse) the Morton Grove Purse. Jack Ketch would not win another significant race until 25 October 1958 when he won the Canadian Championship Stakes with his Hasty House Farm stablemate Mahan finishing second. Retired to stud duty after racing with minor success as a five-year-old in 1959, Jack Ketch eventually stood in Australia but was not a successful sire. Jack Ketch (horse) Jack Ketch (foaled 1954 in Ireland) was a thoroughbred racehorse. Raced at age two under trainer Stephen Quirke, son of Irish champion jockey, Martin Quirke, Jack Ketch won the Maher Nursery Handicap. At age three, the colt won three
Ketch set on a ketch. The "Scarlet Queen" was a 78-foot ketch with a white hull, teak decking, brass bright-work, and sporting the "Scarlet Queen" herself, on the bowsprit, naked as the day she was born, "a fresh, young body... looking forward, ... bold, teasing... dressed in only a crown, and painted brilliant red." A William Garden–designed Formosa 51 ketch named "Wanderer" was the main setting in the 1992 film "Captain Ron". Three Formosa 51s were used in filming. A Formosa 51 ketch named "Viking Spirit" was used in the 2004 romantic comedy "50 First Dates" starring Adam Sandler and Drew