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Obituary: Top racehorse and sire Giant's Causeway, 21, has died after a brief illness.
Named for a unique geological formation on the coast of Northern Ireland, the robust chestnut horse was the first foal out of grade 1-placed, grade 2 winner Mariah's Storm. The daughter of Rahy won six graded stakes, including the Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes and Turfway Park Budweiser Breeders' Cup Stakes (both G2) for owners Bill and Margie Peters before being sold to Coolmore principal John Magnier for $2.6 million at the 1996 Keeneland November breeding stock sale in foal to Storm Cat.Overbrook Farm's Storm Cat commanded a $125,000 stud fee in 1996, and Giant's Causeway played a major role in boosting the sire's fee toward its eventual $500,000 peak.
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