Fourty Niners Son to Japan's Hidaka Stallion Station

Grade 1 winner Fourty Niners Son (Distorted Humor) has been retired and will

enter stud this season at Japan's Hidaka Stallion Station. The deal for the

newly turned seven-year-old was brokered by Shawn Collins of Mare Solutions and

Nobu Araki's Polo Green Stable.

Racing in the colors of breeder Tom Baxter, the chestnut broke his maiden

over Churchill Downs' dirt for trainer Bill Mott, but was transferred to Neil

Drysdale in California prior to his four-year-old season. The chestnut rattled

off three straight allowance scores on the grass in 2005 before stepping up to

face stakes company. Third in the American H. (G2), second in the Eddie Read H.

(G1) and third in the Arlington Million (G1), he broke through with a score in

the Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship (G1) that fall at Oak Tree.

The half-brother to 2000 Del Mar Debutante (G1) winner Cindy's Hero (Sea

Hero) made just three starts in 2006, once again finishing third in the American

H. (G2), but returned in 2007 to land the San Luis Rey H. (G2) in what would be

his final career start last March.

Fourty Niners Son heads to stud with a record of 19-6-3-4 and earnings of

$673,825.