Danger Rock Wins An Important Race., Daily Racing Form, 1915-05-15

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i DANGER HOCK WINS AN IMPORTANT RACE Following his success in the Hasting Plate at the Newmarket First Spring meeting A Belmonts Kpsom Derby candidate Danger Rock gave further evidence of his claim to recognition as a dengerous aspirant to Derby honors when in the course of the Second Spring meeting last Wednesday he won the valuable Newmarket Stakes This is a race for threeyearolds of 150 each with 5000 added at a mile and a quarter and last year was won by Corcyra and was then of the net value of 11000 Col Hall Walkers Let Fly one of the best twoyearolds of last year and deemed one of the leading Derby candidates was one of the she beaten In the race and this circumstance enhances the merit of Danger Rocks triumph triumphDanger Danger Rock is a brother of Defendum a four yearold now and a colt that was particularly well thought of as a twoyearold by Mr Ilelnumt al ¬ though Jie failed to race up to expectations This year another of the same breeding will boar the silks of the chairman of the Jockey Club in De lancey a good looking bay colt that Hildreth is fitting at Belmont Park ParkDelusion Delusion the dam of Danger Rock Drfenduin and Delancey is a daughter of Meddler and Faith ¬ ful and she was bred by the late William C Whit ¬ ney being only thirteen years old now She trace on her dams side to the stock of live elder Belmont and is ired along the siime lines as Lady Violet one of the most successful of thu matrons of the Nursery Stud Faithful was a daughter of Long ¬ fellow and Miss Primrose a daughter of The 111 Used


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