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Historical Highway MarkersRokeby StablesB-42
Paul Mellon established Rokeby Stables near here on property purchased in 1931 by his father, Andrew W. Mellon, financier and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Paul Mellon bred and raised champion racehorses, including American Way, Grand National Steeplechase winner in 1948; Arts and Letters and Fort Marcy, Horses of the Year in 1969 and 1970, respectively; Mill Reef, winner of Europe's most prestigious races in 1971; and Sea Hero, Kentucky Derby winner in 1993. Mellon twice won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder. He collected equine art and donated many pieces to the National Gallery of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Yale Center for British Art, which he founded.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Paul Mellon, with John Baskett, Reflections in a Silver Spoon: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992). Francis Marion Bush, Paul Mellon: Visionary of the Turf (North Charleston, SC: Booksurge LLC, 2006). Edward L. Bowen, Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders, vol. 2 (Lexington, KY: Eclipse Press, 2004). Pat Ryan, “A Man of Arts and Letters,” Sports Illustrated (16 March 1970). New York Times, 17 Nov. 1946, 2 Oct. 1948. Washington Post, 25 March 1931, 17 Apr. 1938, 3 Feb. 1999, 17 March 2014. www.rasingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame |