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Stonesider to stand initial season at Highcliff Farm
Posted: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:14 PM
Stonerside Stable’s homebred Stonesider will stand his initial season in 2008 at Highcliff Farm in Delanson, New York.
The four-year-old Giant’s Causeway colt out of Grade 2 winner Added Gold, by Gilded Time, will stand for $3,000 at Highcliff, which is operated by resident veterinarian and general manager C. Lynwood O’Cain and his wife, Suzie O’Cain.
In his lone career start, Stonesider won a 5 ½-furlong maiden special weight race by a head on June 30, 2005, at Belmont Park before he was injured and did not race again.
“We’re very pleased to be sending Stonesider to Highcliff,” said John Adger, racing and bloodstock manager for Stonerside Stable. “The O’Cains are a great team, and have done an excellent job with Highcliff’s other stallions over the years.
“Stonesider is very much in the mold of Giant’s Causeway, with all the flash and good looks of his sire. And even though he didn’t get the opportunity to live up to his potential at the track, we feel he will be a very solid sire, and we’re happy to be a part of the outstanding program in New York.”
"Had Stonesider been able to reach his predicted Grade 1 stakes potential, we would not have been given this opportunity to stand him at Highcliff Farm in New York,” said Suzie O’Cain, director of stallion promotion and development at Highcliff. “Being by Giant's Causeway, who is viewed as the next sire-of-sires, out of a graded stakes-winning dam, Stonesider should be a great addition to the New York breeding program."
