Mount Nelson (horse)

Mount Nelson
Sire	Rock of Gibraltar
Grandsire	Danehill
Dam	Independence
Damsire	Selkirk
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	7 April 2004
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Cliveden Stud
Owner	Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor
Trainer	Aidan O'Brien
Record	9: 3-1-2
Earnings	£459,137
Major wins
Criterium International (2006) Eclipse Stakes (2008)

Mount Nelson (foaled 7 April 2004) is a British-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the Eclipse Stakes in 2008. Mount Nelson showed great promise as a two-year-old in 2006 when he won the Criterium International less than a month after his racecourse debut. Hopes that he would become a classic contender in 2007 ended when he sustained a serious foot injury early in the year. He returned as a four-year-old to win the Eclipse and ran well in defeat in several other major races. He was then retired to stud, with his first foals appearing on the racecourse in 2012.

Mount Nelson is a bay horse with a white star and stripe bred by the Cliveden Park Stud in Buckinghamshire. Mount Nelson was from the first crop of foals sired by Rock of Gibraltar who won seven Group 1 races in a row, including the 2000 Guineas. He has gone on to sire a number of other top racehorses, including Society Rock, Eagle Mountain, Varenar (Prix de la Forêt) and Samitar (Irish 1000 Guineas). Mount Nelson's dam, Independence, was a high-class racemare who won four races including the Matron Stakes and the Sun Chariot Stakes in 2001. She was descended from Home on the Range, the dam of the Epsom Derby winner Reference Point. Apart from Mount Nelson, Independence's best performer has been Monitor Closely, who won the Great Voltigeur Stakes and finished third in the St Leger Stakes.

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