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Birdstone (foaled May 16, 2001, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2004 Belmont Stakes and has become a successful sire.
Owned and bred by Marylou Whitney of Whitney family racing fame, Birdstone won the Champagne Stakes, a leading race for two-year-olds, at Belmont Park in 2003, but was not a factor in the first two Triple Crown races (finishing eighth in the Kentucky Derby and skipping the Preakness Stakes) and was a 36-1 longshot when he upset the overwhelmingly favored Smarty Jones, taking the lead in the final furlong (201 m) in the fastest Belmont since the advent of modern electronic timing (2002 was the first year times were kept to hundredths).
His sire Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby in 1996 and was a son of 1990 Derby winner Unbridled. Unbridled was in turn sired by Fappiano, a son of Mr. Prospector, the tail-male ancestor of the vast majority of winners of Triple Crown races in recent years (22 out of the 24 races 1998-2005).
Birdstone's victory represented the first in the Belmont for trainer Nick Zito, whose horses had finished second in that classic five times. In the winner's circle after the Belmont Stakes, his owners apologized to the connections of Smarty Jones for winning, as did jockey Edgar Prado.
According to the New York Times, the next major target for Birdstone was the Travers Stakes, which he won despite being the fourth choice at 5-1. He was Zito's first Travers champion.
Birdstone's retirement from racing after suffering a bone chip at the Breeders' Cup was announced on November 4, 2004. He is standing at stud at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
His first starter was the colt Shoe Strap (Birdstone - Boot Strap by Storm Boot), who first went to post on May 21, 2008, at Churchill Downs and is trained by D. Wayne Lukas. Birdstone also sired Mine That Bird, who had several wins as a two-year-old gelding before winning the 2009 Kentucky Derby as a three-year-old. Another of Birdstone's top runners was Summer Bird, who upset Mine That Bird in the 2009 Belmont Stakes. His first crop also included Birdrun, who set the Belmont track record at a mile and a sixteenth 1 and repeated his sire's feat by winning the Travers as well. Summer Bird later won the 2009 Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Birdstone was one of the top ten ranked freshman sires of 2008 with 11 winners out of 22 starters and stood for $10,000 for the remainder of the 2009 season, despite his first-crop success. His 2010 stud fee was posted as $30,000. 2
Bastos is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 21,067 (2015 est.) in an area of 172 km². The elevation is 445 m.
Bastos a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
Bastos may also refer to:
- António Bastos Lopes (born 1953), Portuguese football player
- Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005), Paraguayan novelist and short story writer
- Bartolomeu Jacinto Quissanga (born 1991), Angolan football player
- Carlos Bastos (1925–2004), Brazilian artist and painter, leader of the Brazilian Modernist Movement
- Édson Bastos (born 1979), Brazilian football player
- Fellipe Bastos (born 1990), Brazilian football player
- Fernando Bastos de Ávila (1918–2010), Brazilian Roman Catholic priest
- Gustavo Bastos (born 1983), Brazilian football player known as Gustavo
- Juan Fernando Bastos (born 1958), American portrait artist of Bolivian descent
- Leonardo Lourenço Bastos (born 1975), Brazilian football player, also known as Léo
- Lionel Bastos (born 1956), Mozambique singer, songwriter and music producer
- Márcio Thomaz Bastos (1935–2014), Brazilian politician and minister
- Mauro Cesar Núñez (born 1968), Brazilian football player
- Michel Bastos (born 1983), Brazilian football player
- Othon Bastos (born 1933), Brazilian film actor
- Rafael Bastos (born 1985), Brazilian football player
- Rafinha Bastos (born 1976), Brazilian comedian, journalist and television personality
- Vânia Bastos (born 1956), Brazilian singer
- Vítor Bastos (born 1990), Portuguese football player
- Waldemar Bastos (born 1954), Angolan musician
Bartolomeu Jacinto Quissanga, known as Bastos (born November 23, 1991) is an Angolan footballer who plays as a defender for Lazio.
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Four Quarters, then took the birdstone his father had given him, an intricately carved piece of basalt about the size of his thumb attached to a slender linen cord, and twirled it until it sang.
He put the birdstone back in his belt pouch, began to climb the rock face.