Tracery (horse)

Tracery
Sire	Rock Sand
Grandsire	Sainfoin
Dam	Topiary
Damsire	Orme
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1912
Country	United States
Colour	Brown
Breeder	August Belmont, Jr.
Owner	August Belmont, Jr.
Trainer	John Watson
Record	9: 6–1–1
Major wins
St. James's Palace Stakes (1912) Sussex Stakes (1912) St. Leger Stakes (1912) Eclipse Stakes (1913) Champion Stakes (1913)

Tracery (1909–1924) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the St. Leger Stakes in 1912. In a career which lasted from June 1912 until October 1913 he ran nine times and won six races. After finishing third on his debut in the 1912 Epsom Derby Tracery never lost another completed race at level weights. He won the St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes and St. Leger Stakes in 1912 and the Eclipse Stakes and Champion Stakes as a four-year-old in 1913. He was brought down by a protester in the 1913 Ascot Gold Cup. After his retirement from racing he became a highly successful breeding stallion in Britain and Argentina.

Tracery was a brown horse bred in Kentucky by his owner August Belmont, Jr.. He was sired by the British Triple Crown winner Rock Sand, who had been sent to America in 1906 and proved successful as a breeding stallion. Tracery's dam Topiary was not a great success as a racehorse but was a daughter of the French mare Plaisanterie, whose wins included the "Autumn double" (Cesarewitch Handicap, Cambridgeshire Handicap) in 1885.

Horse racing in New York State was suspended following the Hart–Agnew Law in 1908, leading many owners to relocate their horses. Belmont sent his colt to race in England, where he was trained by John Watson, the private trainer of the Rothschild family, at his Palace House stable in Newmarket, Suffolk.

Tracery was entered in races as a two-year-old, but did not run as he had problems in training caused by "thorough-pins".

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