Rock On Ruby

Rock On Ruby
Rock On Ruby at Sandown in April 2012.
Sire	Oscar
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Stony View
Damsire	Tirol
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	11 May 2005
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	John O'Dwyer
Owner	The Festival Goers
Trainer	Paul Nicholls Harry Fry
Record	27:12-8-5 (as of November 2015)
Earnings	£636,290
Major wins
Gerry Feilden Hurdle (2011) Champion Hurdle (2012) Relkeel Hurdle (2014) Ascot Hurdle (2015)

Rock On Ruby, (foaled 11 May 2005) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist hurdler he is best known for his performances in the 2011–2012 National Hunt season, when he won the Gerry Feilden Hurdle at Newbury in November before winning Britain's most prestigious hurdle race, the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on 13 March. After failing to make a mark as a steeplechaser he returned to hurdling and won the Relkeel Hurdle in 2014 and the Ascot Hurdle in 2015.

Rock On Ruby is a bay horse bred in Ireland by John O'Dwyer. He is one of many successful jumpers (including Oscar Whisky, Big Zeb and Lord Windermere) sired by Oscar, a son of Sadler's Wells based at the Grange Stud in County Cork. His dam Stony View never raced but has produced at least two other winners. Rock On Ruby was first offered for sale as a foal in November 2005 when he was bought for €23,000 by the Whitehorse Stud. As a four-year-old gelding, he was sent to the Doncaster sales in May 2009 where he was bought for £23,000 by Richard Barber and entered the ownership of the Festival Goers syndicate. Although the horse was officially trained by Paul Nicholls at Ditcheat in Somerset, he was actually stabled twenty-five miles away in Nicholls' satellite yard at Seaborough in Dorset where his day-to-day conditioning was handled by the assistant trainer Harry Fry.