Friar Rock [SEP] father
Rock was sired by Rock Sand, the 1903 English Triple Crown champion purchased by August Belmont, Jr. from Sir James Miller and brought to the United States. Friar Rock was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sam Hildreth.
Racing career.
Friar Rock was sent to the track at age two, earning wins in the 1915 Adirondack and Whirl Stakes. That year, he won five of his twelve races. At age three, he was the dominant horse in American racing. After winning the important Brooklyn
recorded as "kakabikah" ("gakaabikaa", "split rock" or more descriptively, "gichi-gakaabikaa," "the great severed rock" which referenced the jagged chunks of limestone constantly eroding by the falls).
In 1680, the falls became known to the Western world when they were observed and published in a journal by Father Louis Hennepin, a Catholic friar of Belgian birth, who also first published about Niagara Falls to the world's attention. Hennepin named them the "Chutes de Saint-Antoine