Rock Sand

Rock Sand

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Rock Sand


caption = - Rock Sand -
sire = Sainfoin
grandsire = Springfield
dam = Roquebrune
damsire = St. Simon
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1900
country = Great Britain flagicon|UK
colour = Dark Bay
breeder = Sir James Miller
owner = Sir James Miller
August Belmont, Jr. (at stud)
trainer = George Blackwell
record = 20: 16-1-3
earnings = £45,618
race = Coventry Stakes (1902)
Champagne Stakes (1902)
Dewhurst Stakes (1902)
Eclipse Stakes (1903)
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)
honours =
updated= September 19, 2006

Rock Sand (1900-1914) was a Dark Bay/Brown thoroughbred race horse bred by Sir James Miller at his Hamilton Stud in Newmarket. The colt was sired by Sainfoin, out of the dam Roquebrune.

In 1903, Rock Sand won the English Triple Crown when he captured the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas, and the St. Leger Stakes. In 1906 when 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 Mahubah (1910), the dam of Man o' War. He sired Damrosch, winner of the 1916 Preakness Stakes and was the damsire of Preakness winners Broomspun (1921) and Coventry (1925).

Among Rock Sand's other progeny was Tracery (b. 1909) who won the St. Leger Stakes for August Belmont, Jr. and was the sire of a number of British champions. However, 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 July 20, 1914. His skeleton can be seen in the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy & Paleontology at the Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/rock+sand Rock Sand's pedigree and racing stats]


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