Stone Farm is an American

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farm near Paris, Kentucky. It was founded in 1970 by

Arthur B. Hancock III Arthur Boyd Hancock III (born February 22, 1943, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre (8 km2) horse breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, and a composer of Bluegras ...

, part of the prominent Hancock family of

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fame. Started as a tract, Hancock gradually added on until it became a rambling 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 them

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winners. As of 2006, the farm has produced four winners of an Eclipse Award, six American Classic and two

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winners. Some of the operation's famous horses include

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Gato Del Sol Gato Del Sol (February 23, 1979 – August 7, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his win in the 1982 Kentucky Derby. Background Gato Del Sol was a gray horse foaled at Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was sired by th ...

, Valdez and

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, the 2000 Kentucky Derby champion.. In August, 2007,

had to be humanely

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due to old age. He was 28.

References

Official website for Stone Farm

Bloodhorse.com article on Stone Farm
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