 He was the father of Arthur B. Hancock, who would have inherited Ellerslie Stud but who later sold it in order to consolidate his breeding operations at his Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky.Knight of Ellerslie was purchased by Major Thomas Walker Doswell of Bullfield Farm in Doswell, Virginia, who trained and raced him throughout his career on the track.As a sire, the best of Knight of Ellerslie's progeny was Henry of Navarre, the 1894, and 1895 American Horse of the Year and a future U.S.