Satish and Anne Sanan's Padua Stables has privately sold its interest in Breeders' Cup Classic and Preakness winner Curlin, who is expected to be named 2007 Horse of the Year. A release issued late Tuesday afternoon by the Getty and Childers law firm in Lexington, Ky., said that Padua has sold its stake in the 3-year-old Smart Strike colt to Jess Jackson's Stonestreet Stable and George Bolton. Padua reportedly owned a 29 percent stake in Curlin as part of a group that included Stonestreet, Bolton, and the Midnight Cry Stable of Kentucky attorneys Bill Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. Stonestreet, Padua, and Bolton privately purchased a collective 80-percent interest in Curlin from Midnight Cry Stable for about $3.5 million in February after the colt won his first start, a Gulfstream maiden, by 12 3/4 lengths. That deal gave Stonestreet a 31 percent interest and Bolton a 20 percent stake. Midnight Cry Stable originally purchased the colt for $57,000 at the 2005 Keeneland September yearling sale. Gallion and Cunningham, who are accused of defrauding more than 400 clients of $64 million in a class-action lawsuit over the diet drug fen-phen, have been jailed since August. On Nov. 1, a Kentucky circuit court judge issued an order granting the fen-phen plaintiffs access to financial assets accruing to Gallion and Cunningham's Tandy LLC, the entity through which the two manage their interest in Curlin.