Mount Nelson

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Mount Nelson (horse)

Mount Nelson (foaled 7 April 2004) is a British-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the Eclipse Stakes in 2008. Mount Nelson showed great promise as a two-year-old in 2006 when he won the Criterium International less than a month after his racecourse debut. Hopes that he would become a classic contender in 2007 ended when he sustained a serious foot injury early in the year. He returned as a four-year-old to win the Eclipse and ran well in defeat in several other major races. He was then retired to stud, with his first foals appearing on the racecourse in 2012.

Background

Mount Nelson is a bay horse with a white star and stripe bred by the Cliveden Park Stud in Buckinghamshire. Mount Nelson was from the first crop of foals sired by Rock of Gibraltar who won seven Group 1 races in a row, including the 2000 Guineas. He has gone on to sire a number of other top racehorses, including Society Rock, Eagle Mountain (Hong Kong Cup, Varenar (Prix de la Forêt) and Samitar (Irish 1000 Guineas). Mount Nelson's dam, Independence, was a high-class racemare who won four races including the Matron Stakes and the Sun Chariot Stakes in 2001. She was descended from Home on the Range, the dam of the Epsom Derby winner Reference Point. Apart from Mount Nelson, Independence's best performer has been Monitor Closely, who won the Great Voltigeur Stakes and finished third in the St Leger Stakes.

Mount Nelson (Antarctica)

Mount Nelson is a mountain 6,332 feet (1,930 m) tall, standing three miles northeast of Mount Pulitzer, near the west side of Scott Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. It was first mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35). The mountain was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Randy L. Nelson, who made satellite geodesy studies at McMurdo Station, as part of the winter party of 1965.

Mount Nelson is located at 85 degrees 47 S Latitude, 153 degrees 48 W Longitude. (Latitude 854700S Longitude 1534800W)

Nelson, born April 11, 1937 in Cedarview, Utah, USA, was head of the team of scientists and geographers who set up satellite tracking at McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 1965, as well as many other locations worldwide. During 1965 the equipment needed to track satellites took up two large building roughly the size of a semi-trailer, in contrast GPS abilities available in hand held devices 40 years later.

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