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Menifee's First Weanlings Average $90,000

Millionaire and multiple G1 winner MENIFEE sent his first crop of weanlings to the breeding stock sales in November. His first weanling to sell was a colt out of the stakes-winning Lost Code mare Hash It Out at the Fasig-Tipton November Select Sale. The bay colt brought $70,000. Just two days later at the Keeneland November sale, a chestnut colt by Menifee out of the multiple stakes-producing Halo mare Final Vows brought $140,000. His first filly catalogued, out of stakes winner and stakes producer Duo Disco, by Spring Double, sold on just the fourth day of the Keeneland sale for $60,000.

With his first three weanlings offered averaging $90,000 thru the first several days of Kentucky's breeding stock sales, Menifee will have one more weanling selling at Keeneland before the sale is through. By the same token, G1 winner WAGON LIMIT, Stone Farm's other first-crop sire, will have his first weanlings sell just a bit later in the Keeneland sale.

Skywalker: $20 Million Man

In mid-July, Stone Farm sire Skywalker crossed the important threshold of $20 Million in lifetime progeny earnings. Excluding 2-year-olds, who are just beginning to hit the racetrack, Skywalker has sired 11 crops of racing age, giving him an average of more than $1.8 Million annually from modest-sized books.

The 19-year-old stallion is certainly on course to surpass his yearly average in 2001 with over $1.4 Million in earnings already this year through early August.

First Saratoga Consignment a Success

For the first time in the history, Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm offered a consignment at the Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. The four horses in the consignment averaged $317,500 and were highlighted by Hip #134, a Touch Gold colt out of Michelle Mon Amour, who brought $400,000 from basketball coach Rick Pitino.

Hancock's grandfather, Arthur B. Hancock Sr., was a regular consigner at Saratoga, but shifted to Keeneland due to World War II travel restrictions after the 1942 sale.

Skywalker Nets 60th Stakes Horse

When Sky High Dancer crossed the wire second in the Palo Alto H. at Bay Meadows on June 2, 2001, she became the 60th career stakes horse for her sire, Skywalker. It was the 4-year-old filly's first try in a stakes event after two consecutive allowance wins.

Skywalker, whose 60 stakes horses include three champions, has tallied a remarkable 20% stakes horses from starters. Thirty-two of those stakes horses are stakes winners and include multimillionaire and champion Bertrando. Skywalker's five stakes horses in 2001 include multiple stakes winners Spinelessjellyfish, Image of Glory, and Al Skywalker.

Skywalker's Stakes Double on 4/28

Stone Farm stallion Skywalker scored a rare stakes double on Saturday, April 28, at Hollywood Park. In the sixth race, Spinelessjellyfish battled down the length of the stretch to take the $175,000 Khaled S. for the second consecutive year. In winning the Khaled, the son of Skywalker not only boosted his career earnings to over $500,000, but he also gave jockey Chris McCarron his 7,000th career win.

Two races earlier on the card, Skywalker's daughter Image of Glory captured the runner-up spot in the B. Thoughtful S. In her last outing, she won the $100,000 Soviet Problem H. by five lengths, blazing six furlongs in 1:08. Her earnings are now nearly $300,000.

Fusaichi Pegasus Named Kentucky-Bred Horse of the Year

Kentucky Derby-G1 winner Fusaichi Pegasus, bred in partnership by Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm and Stonerside Stable, and raised and sold by Stone Farm, was honored as the 2000 Kentucky-Bred Horse of the Year by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders (KTOB) at a luncheon on April 25. The Kentucky-Bred Champions Award Luncheon, held at Keeneland, is an annual event honoring the top Kentucky-breds produced in the Commonwealth but proven on the national stage.

Fusaichi Pegasus is the third winner of racing's most coveted prize to be bred and/or raised at Stone Farm. Gato Del Sol, winner of the 1982 Derby, also was bred by Stone and raised on Stone's rich land. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Derby and Preakness S.-G1, was raised by Stone as well and later owned in partnership by Hancock. In addition, Secretariat's best son, Risen Star, who won the Preakness and Belmont S.-G1 in 1988 and was subsequently named Champion 3-Year-Old Colt, also was bred, raised, and sold by Stone.

The only son of legendary sire Mr. Prospector to win the Derby, Fusaichi Pegasus was consigned by Stone Farm to the 1998 Keeneland July Select Yearling sale and sold for $4 million, the highest price for a yearling in the 1990s, to Fusao Sekiguchi of Japan. Sekiguchi campaigned the colt in his colors to additional victories in the Wood Memorial-G2, San Felipe S.-G2, and Jerome H.-G2 before Fusaichi Pegasus was retired to stud at a value estimated to be $60-70 million.

CHAMPION SIRE NORTHERN BABY PENSIONED at STONE FARM

Stone Farm announced today that Northern Baby has been retired from breeding. The 24-year-old stallion sired 98 stakes horses, including eight champions, in 17 crops to date. His leading runners include Eclipse Champion Turf Female Possibly Perfect, English Champion 3YO Colt Michelozzo, French Champion 3YO Colts Bairn and Thrill Show, and Steeplechase Champions Highland Bud and Warm Spell.

Northern Baby won the 1979 English Champion S.-G1 and 1980 Prix Dollar-G2. Bred in Canada by Kinghaven Farms, he is by Champion Northern Dancer out of the Champion-producing Round Table, Two Rings.

Arthur B. Hancock III   --   200 Stoney Point Road, Paris, Kentucky 40361
Tel: (859) 987-3737   Fax: (859) 987-1474   E-mail: stonefarm@stonefarm.com