Foaled 1970 Colour Chestnut Owner Stafford Farms Species Equus caballus Sex Stallion Damsire Prince John | Country Canada Breeder Stafford Farms Record 55: 13-12-11 Trainer Gil Rowntree Earnings 245,976 USD Grandsire Ambiorix | |
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Royal Chocolate (foaled 1970 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.
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Background
Royal Chocolate was bred and raced by Jack Stafford's Stafford Farms of King City, Ontario. He was sired by Amber Morn whose French sire Ambiorix stood at Claiborne Farm and who was a son of the important three-time French Champion sire, Tourbillon. Royal Chocolate's dam Rocket Shot, was a granddaughter of the influential sire, Princequillo.
Royal Chocolate was conditioned for racing by future by Canadian Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Gil Rowntree.
Racing career
During his career, he competed at distances from five to fourteen furlongs but is best known for winning Canada's most prestigious race in 1973, the mile and a quarter (10 furlongs) Queen's Plate. In the ensuing second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series, he ran third to stablemate Tara Road in the Prince of Wales Stakes on the turf at Fort Erie Racetrack
Stud record
Retired to stud duty after a successful 1976 racing season, as a sire Royal Chocolate met with reasonable success. Among his offspring, Gone To Royalty was a multiple stakes winner. His last foals were born in 1994.