Lot 170 , George Finch Mason (1850-1915), 'Rock Sand Wins! - The Derby, 1903'

George Finch Mason (1850-1915)
'Rock Sand Wins! - The Derby, 1903',
signed lower left,
titled lower right,
watercolour and bodycolour,
20.5cm x 36cm

Rock Sand (1900–1914) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a career which lasted from the spring of 1902 until October 1904 he ran twenty times and won sixteen races. He was a leading British two-year-old of his generation and the winner of the British Triple Crown, having won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, The Derby, and the St. Leger Stakes. He won another series of major races as a four-year-old before being retired to stud, where he had success in both Europe and North America.

£100-200
Provenance: The Tanyards Collection, East Sussex