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PREDICTS SUCCESS FOR ROCK SAND. Manager of Nursery Stud Also Looks for Good Things from the Untried Singleton. New York, July 8. Edward Kane, manager of August Belmonts Nursery Stud, predicts great stud success for Rock Sand, the Epsom Derby winner, for which the chairman of the Jockey Club paid the handsome sura of 25,000 several years ago. The first of the Rock Sands will race next season here and in England and the best of them will bear the silks of Mr. Belmont. Only one Rock Sand was sold Saturday by the Fasig-Tipton. Company. He was Big Rock, rather an unprepossessing chestnut, out of the Hastings mare. Bivouac. Joe Jones bought Big Rock for 00. It is generally conceded that the Rock Sand colts out of Beldame. Teas Over the dam of Ort Wells and Dick Welles and Ori-enta the dam of Okenite. are the stars of the Sainfoin horses first crop. These youngsters are to go to England to race next year under the management of trainer Whtson. .Mr. Kane says that Rock Sand has matured Into a superb stallion of fine temper. He Is a singularly virile horse and he breeds uniformly and stamps his progeny with his own likeness. The stallion family to which Rock Sand belongs has been successful in this country. Rock Sand and the old reliable Hastings are the stallions receiving the greatest attention at the Nursery Stud these days, but Mr. Kane has an. unknown for which he predicts success. This is Singleton, a son of St. Simon and Field Azure. Field Azure, now at James R. Keenes Castleton Stud, is a daughter of Bend Or. Singleton was Tired by the late Marcus Daly, of Montana, at his English stud and brought to this country in 1901. Mr. Belmont paid 3,000 for him when he was a weanling at the sale at which Jamps It. Keene purchased Optime. the dam of Sysonby. As a yearling Singleton was tried highly, but he did not race. His legs went back on him. According to Mr. Kane. Singleton is one of the finest animals of the St. Simon family on this side of the Atlantic, and he Is a horse of fine temper. Like Rock Sand he breeds uniformly and his colts anil fillies are generally youngsters of size, bone and substance. Several members of Singletons first crop will race next season. Their performances will be watched critically, because recent performances of the offspring of Sandringham and Planudes have reawakened interest in the family of St. Simon.
