Among its many successful horses, the stable owned the good runner
Winter's Tale,
Kentucky Derby winner
Sea Hero, and the
European champions
Mill Reef,
Glint of Gold, and Gold and Ivory. Mill Reef's wins included
The Derby and the
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Glint of Gold, a son of Mill Reef, won six European Group One races including the 1981
Derby Italiano,
Grand Prix de Paris, and
Preis von Europa. Paul Mellon is one of only four men to have raced both a Kentucky Derby winner and an Epsom Derby winner. The others are
John W. Galbreath,
Michael Tabor, and
Prince Ahmed bin Salman. Mellon, however, is the only one ever to win the Kentucky Derby, the Epsom Derby, and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In England, Mellon kept his horses at trainer
Ian Balding's Park House Stables at
Kingsclere and raced under his own name. In the United States, Rokeby Stables employed a number of prominent
trainers including Hall of Fame inductee
Elliott Burch, who trained the stable's
champions Arts and Letters,
Quadrangle,
Fort Marcy,
Run the Gantlet, and
Key to the Mint. Another Hall of Fame inductee,
Mack Miller, took over as the Rokeby trainer in 1977. Miller's accomplishments include winning the
New York Handicap Triple in 1984 with
Fit To Fight and the 1993 Kentucky Derby with Sea Hero. Once Miller retired from training, in 1995, the then 88-year-old Paul Mellon decided to give up racing but still maintained his breeding operations. ==References==