Red Rocks (horse)

Red Rocks
Red Rocks (#3) before his final start in the 2009 Breeders' Cup Turf
Sire	Galileo
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Pharmacist
Damsire	Machiavellian
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2003
Country	Ireland
Colour	Dark Bay
Breeder	Ballylinch Stud
Owner	J. Paul Reddam
Trainer	Brian Meehan
Record	24: 6-4-3
Earnings	£1,406, 259 (equivalent)
Major wins
Breeders' Cup Turf (2006) Gordon Richards Stakes (2007) Man o' War Stakes (2008)
Awards
Timeform rating: 124
Last updated on 11 July 2008

Red Rocks (foaled 8 April 2003) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.

Red Rocks is a bay horse with a white blaze and a long white sock on his left hind leg bred by Ballylinch Stud in County Kilkenny. He was sired by Galileo, a son of the fourteen-time Champion sire in Great Britain & Ireland, Sadler's Wells. Red Rocks' dam, Pharmacist, is a daughter of Machiavellian, a multiple Group One winner who was a son of North American Champion sire, Mr. Prospector.

A non-winner as a two-year-old, Red Rocks made his racing debut in September 2005, finishing ninth in a Conditions stakes at Newbury Racecourse. In his only other starts, at Newmarket Racecourse he earned a third in a race for maidens then a second-place finish in the Houghton Conditions Stakes.

Three-year-old Red Rocks won a maiden stakes race in April 2006 at Windsor Racecourse and followed that up with another win in May's Fairway Stakes, a listed race at Newmarket. In June he was second in the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot Racecourse then in July ran second to Rail Link in the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France. After another second-place result in August's Great Voltigeur Stakes at York Racecourse, in September he was third in York's St. Leger Stakes. In November, Red Rocks was sent to Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. There, under jockey Frankie Dettori, he won the most important race of his career, the Breeders' Cup Turf. His win came over a strong international field that included Better Talk Now, English Channel, Cacique, and the 2005 World Champion, Hurricane Run.