Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-02
ROCK SAND CHALLENGES
attention TO HIS RECORD
Famous Thoroughbred Stud Sire OF
Three Champion Racers Per-
forming This Year.
MAI. BELMONT RELATES STORY
Says Racing Season just Closed Was
Remark able and That Prices Paid
at Sales Should Encourage Breed
crs to Produce Best Horses.

When one thoroughbred stud fur
nishcs the champion two-year-old OF
and ne he heb bes, handicap performer Of The
season. the attention Of the racing
world is GhallenGed. and there is a
lie to learn something Of the jude-
men, which brought aboTt such re-,
OF mating when gave to the 'i turf Nan Man
o. War. Mad Halter and LucuiIitc. Let
Major August belmont tell tho story.
II wanted Rock, Sand. the SIR Of
the dam OF Man o. War. FOR tn. Nur-
sery stud. and William ;aston. who
had charge Of the American latter
me. which he did. at "a cost OF sl25 OUG
l vas also eager to own a good daugk-
ter Of Ormc. which wanted TO breed
Sysonby. that horse being by Melton
out Of mare by Orme. Topiary was
ne selection hx lion and she had foal at
booked to fashionable sire Of the
day, bu, sold the service and bred
but it died. When bred to Rock Sand
she threw: In successive years, Trap
Rock and Tracery. the former the sire
one Of the greatest horses the English
turf has known. and whose hook has
osen iuIi for several seasons past.
Follows His Own IDEAS.
II have long had my own ideas
resumed the chairman OF the Jockey
club. about untriod mares in the stud
Many great race horses, bred at ,ur-
Sery have been produced on this plan
Man o War and l.ucullite are two of
the latest out Of such dams. Mahuba h
and Lucky Lass were deficient in con
had the speed and the blood and in
,,m the they developed that constitution
spflnF Mas sd" the 0" nr rs 'n foal OF Of
Man War IS an y sxcsed nsEySus Tuf .y
type and their weanling brother which
s,o saw a., a, the ,. Xnrscry recently is "a
time possessing "a wealth of quality.
re t is The pick Of my flock Of twenty,
iour youngsters. fourteen colts and
his makeup nave named lin NJ
piay His brothers and sisters are
VIC are all so fond.
wa apS You omus Lmow ,he history ~ Man o
IN love win the colt that could
not bear 10 part with him in 1915 wnen
inferred the service and resolved to
planned 70 keep him out bu, a few days
neIo.e me sale at saratoga. bu, fear
derstood, ne was sent along with the
rest. He brought only $1,000 as againat
aLmott thrice that amount, for some OF
mat he had sold so low.
Sells Hor.cs Separately.
cop OF Meanings. determined TO sell
the get OF e.ch OF my horses sepa-
rately, and Mr. Hancock rot he "a lr
plays, among them the brother 10
Man o War. which. ike Ny Play, is a
IA! in color am eager 10 $50 l. nv
ne vii! turn out. Mahubah IS TN a
very young mare and she is SAT- in
tral again 10 Fair Play
Had l.ucuilitc. which is out OF the
untried ormondal. dam Lucky Lass
not been kicked at tho post a. sara
toga in his two ycar-old form we
mink he would have won the Hopeful
and Futuriiy stakes OF 1917 4 sister
TO this horse called Lucky Catch has a
superb bay colt BY Hourinss. and Mis-
sion by Rock Sand has A colt by the
same horse. which. ny the way has
devsiopTd Ereatiy since going TO the
arrived from France with yeariIng
and weanlinG brother TO him. tho for
mer very much like his distinguished
relative"
The soundness Of Major Relmont's
Rock Sand dams viii not have to res,
on the activities of My PLAY as there
are three other smashing colts in ;his
seasons crop OF weanlings at the nu:-
sery. They are the chestnut Chat.
terton out OF Chit Chat, whose de ~
was Chinkara by Ciillopin tho b,y
Honorable. o.ut 'of Hautc Roche a
half-sister To Hourless. and the brown
Draft out of DraEnct the dam III
Drastic and Duchess LIE c.
Hns Been Remarkable Year.
In commenting on the racing sea.