Ocean Swell

Ocean Swell
Sire	Blue Peter
Grandsire	Fairway
Dam	Jiffy
Damsire	Juniata
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1941
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	6th Earl of Rosebery
Owner	6th Earl of Rosebery
Trainer	Jack Jarvis
Record	15: 6-3-2
Earnings	£9,905
Major wins
New Derby (1944) Jockey Club Cup (1944) Ascot Gold Cup (1945)

Ocean Swell (1941–1954) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1943 to 1945 he ran fifteen times and won six races. As a three-year-old 1944 he won the New Derby, a wartime substitute for the Epsom Derby run at Newmarket. He later developed into a specialist stayer, winning the Jockey Club Cup in the Autumn of 1944 and the Gold Cup at the following summer. He was then retired to stud where he had limited success.

Ocean Swell, like both of his parents, was bred by his owner, the Liberal politician and former First-class cricketer, Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, at his Mentmore Stud. He was a bay horse with a narrow white blaze and white socks on both his hind legs.

The colt was one of nine winners produced by the mare Jiffy, the best of the others being the 1946 Epsom Oaks runner-up Iona. Other descendants of Jiffy included the Kentucky Derby winners Tomy Lee and Genuine Risk. Ocean Swell was from the first crop of foals sired by Blue Peter, an outstanding racehorse who won the 2000 Guineas and the Derby in 1939 and went on to be champion sire on three occasions. Ocean Swell was sent into training with Jack Jarvis at his Park Lodge Stables at Newmarket, Suffolk.

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