BloodHorse Editorial Director Evan Hammonds’ conversation with Arthur Hancock III is featured in the May 2 issue of BloodHorse magazine. The colorful 10-page feature spanning the 50 years of Stone Farm history covers a wide variety of topics
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Looking Back at Kentucky Derby Winner Fusaichi Pegasus
It was exactly twenty years that Fusaichi Pegasus stormed home to win the 126th running of the Kentucky Derby-G1. Bred, raised, and sold by Stone Farm, the colt was the first favorite to win the
Stone Farm Resident & Champion Producer Beyond The Waves
The career of Beyond The Waves, dam of 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, is examined in BloodHorse Daily by Bloodstock Editor Eric Mitchell. A stakes winner in France who was also graded stakes-placed and a “batter than average”
Bricks and Mortar and His Dam Beyond The Waves Honored by KTOB and KTA
Bricks and Mortar has been named Kentucky-bred Horse of the Year and Champion Male Turf Horse, and his dam, Beyond the Waves, has been honored as Broodmare of the Year…
Stone Farm Featured in Keeneland Magazine
Lenny Shulman, senior correspondent for BloodHorse and author several books on racing, profiled Stone Farm in the spring issue of the award-winning Keeneland Magazine.
Bricks and Mortar Named Eclipse Champion Horse of the Year
A perfect six for six in a 2019 campaign that culminated with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Turf-G1, Bricks and Mortar was honored as Horse of the Year at the 49th annual Eclipse Award ceremony held at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 23
TDN Profile of Stone Farm’s Lynn Hancock
TDN’s Carly Silver profiles Stone Farm’s Lynn Hancock, her appreciation for the industry and her role in the operation of the family farm.
Friendly Wager & 1st Derby Win Cost Arthur Hancock a Car
Jeff Lowe with America’s Best Racing recounts Arthur Hancock’s 1982 Kentucky Derby win with longshot Gato Del Sol, and the price of a promise to the colt’s groom long-time Stone Farm employee Sam Ransom.
Kentucky Derby Winner Gato Del Sol Dies at 28
Stone Farm’s homebred Gato Del Sol, who won the 1982 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) for Arthur B. Hancock III and Leone J. Peters, was euthanized Aug. 7 at Hancock’s Stone Farm near Paris, Ky. due to the infirmities of old age. The 28-year-old pensioned stallion was foaled and raised at Stone and was the first Derby winner to represent the Hancock family.
Sunday Silence vs Easy Goer in the 1989 BC Classic
From the Vault of Sports Illustrated…
Eclipse Award-winning journalist Bill Nack writes about the face-off between Champions Sunday Silence and Easy Goer in the 1989 Breeders’ Cup Classic.