Stone Farm is an AmericanThoroughbredhorse breeding farm nearParis, Kentucky. It was founded in 1970 byArthur B. Hancock III, part of the prominent Hancock family ofClaiborne Farm fame.
Started as a 100-acre (0.40 km2) tract, Hancock gradually added on until it became a rambling 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) property with over 100 paddocks, with Leone J. Peter's, Cabin, as the first stallion to stand at stud.
In its over 30 years of history, Stone Farms has raised more than 100 stakes winners with more than one-third of themgraded stakes race winners.
As of 2006, the farm has produced four winners of anEclipse Award, sixAmerican Classic and twoBreeders' Cup Classic winners. Some of the operation's famous horses includeSunday Silence,Risen Star,Menifee,Gato Del Sol,Valdez andFusaichi Pegasus, the 2000 Kentucky Derby champion..
In August, 2007,Gato Del Sol had to be humanelyeuthanized due to old age. He was 28.
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