Rock, editor and owner, dead at 56

Graham Rock, founding editor of the British racing daily, the Racing Post, died Tuesday in England of cancer at age 56. Rock, who had spent time as a steward for the Hong Kong Jockey Club, a jockey's agent, and a television analyst, was also an owner. His best horse was Pasternak, the winner in 1997 of the Magnet Cup and Cambridgeshire.