Grade 1 Winner Rock Your World's First Foal a Filly
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Photo: Courtesy Spendthrift Farm/Louise E. Reinagel
Rock Your World at Spendthrift Farm
Spendthrift Farm's Rock Your World , the 2021 Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner by Candy Ride , sired his first reported foal Jan. 9, when a filly was born at Diana Shoop's Gemstone Farm near Lexington.
Bred by Mark & Allison Menscer's Post Rock Farm, the bay is the first foal out of the American Pharoah mare Mrs. O'Connell .
"We are thrilled with the filly," said Mark Menscer. "She looks like Rock Your World. He stamped her out. She has tremendous bone and a lot of substance. We couldn't be happier, especially being the first effort out of the mare."
Bred in Kentucky by Ron McAnally & Deborah McAnally out of the grade 1-placed stakes-winning Empire Maker mare Charm the Maker, Rock Your World was a $650,000 purchase by Sapphire Stable from Winter Quarter Farm's consignment to the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Campaigned by Hronis Racing, Talla Racing, and trainer John Sadler, he began his promising racing career in California with three straight wins, including a 4 1/4-length victory over Medina Spirit in the Santa Anita Derby. That win made him the second choice behind Essential Quality for the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1), where he finished 17th after encountering traffic trouble.
Rock Your World's first three dams are all multiple stakes winners or graded stakes winners. An earner of $612,100, he is set to stand his second season for an advertised fee of $10,000 stands and nurses.