Rock Sand

Rock Sand
Sire Sainfoin
Grandsire Springfield
Dam Roquebrune
Damsire St. Simon
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1900
Country Great Britain
Colour Brown
Breeder Sir James Miller
Owner Sir James Miller
August Belmont, Jr. (at stud)
Trainer George Blackwell
Record 20: 16-1-3
Earnings £45,618
Major wins
Coventry Stakes (1902)
Champagne Stakes (1902)
Dewhurst Stakes (1902)
2,000 Guineas (1903)
Epsom Derby (1903)
St. Leger Stakes (1903)
St. James's Palace Stakes (1903)
Hardwicke Stakes (1904)
Princess of Wales's Stakes (1904)
Jockey Club Stakes (1904)
Awards
10th U.K. Triple Crown Champion (1903)
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on 28 September 2006

Rock Sand (1900-1914) was a brown Thoroughbred race horse who was a very good young galloper, winning six of his seven starts. Always showing great courage he won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, St. Leger Stakes and Epsom Derby which earned him the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

He was a beautifully conformed small brown horse bred by Sir James Miller at his Hamilton Stud in Newmarket.[1] Rock Sand was sired by Sainfoin, who was bred by Queen Victoria, out of Roquebrune by St. Simon. Roquebrune won two races and was a half-sister to the Epsom Oaks winner, Seabreeze.[2] He was had three crosses of Stockwell in the fourth generation (4m x 4m x 4f).[3]

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Racing career

As a two-year-old Rock Sand won the Coventry Stakes, Champagne Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes.

When he was three-years-old Rock Sand won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Epsom Derby, St. Leger Stakes, St. James's Palace Stakes and was third in the Eclipse Stakes behind Ard Patrick and Sceptre. His 1903 wins in the 2,000 Guineas, St. Leger and Derby earned Rock Sand the English Triple Crown.

In 1904 he won the Hardwicke Stakes, Princess of Wales's Stakes and Jockey Club Stakes.

Stud record

Rock Sand was sold for £25,000 for breeding purposes to the American August Belmont, Jr. who sent him to his stud farm in Lexington, Kentucky. There, he sired:

The banning of wagering on horse racing in certain U.S. states forced Belmont to sell Rock Sand to a syndicate who shipped him to France in 1912, where he died of heart disease on 20 July 1914. His skeleton can be seen in the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy & Paleontology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France.

Tabulated pedigree

Pedigree of Rock Sand (GB), brown stallion, 1900
Sire
Sainfoin
1887 
Springfield
1873 
St.Albans Stockwell
Bribery
Viridis Marsyas
Maid of Palmyra
Sanda
1878
Wenlock Lord Clifden
Mineral
Sandal Stockwell
Lady Evelyn
Dam
Roquebrune
1893 
St. Simon
1881
Galopin Vedette
Flying Duchess
St.Angela King Tom
Adeline
St.Marguerite
1879 
Hermit Newminster
Seclusion
Devotion Stockwell
Alcestis (Family: 4-n)[3]

References

  1. ^ Ahnert, Rainer L. (Ed. in Chief), “Thoroughbred Breeding of the World”, Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970
  2. ^ Leicester, Sir Charles (1974). Bloodstock Breeding. London: J.A. Allen & Co.. pp. 200. ISBN 85131 129 6. 
  3. ^ a b Morris, Simon; Tesio Power 2000 - Stallions of the World, Syntax Software

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