Hard Spun
| Hard Spun | |
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| Sire | Danzig |
| Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
| Dam | Turkish Tryst |
| Damsire | Turkoman |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2004 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark Bay |
| Breeder | Michael Moran & Brushwood Stable |
| Owner | Fox Hill Farms |
| Trainer | J. Larry Jones |
| Record | 13: 7-3-1 |
| Earnings | $2,673,470 |
| Major wins | |
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Port Penn Stakes 2006 Kentucky Derby 2nd (2007) Preakness Stakes 3rd (2007) Breeders Cup Classic 2nd (2007) |
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| Awards | |
| World Champion 3-year-old Sprinter on dirt (2007) | |
Port Penn Stakes 2006
Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes (2006)
Lecomte Stakes (2007)
Lane's End Stakes (2007)
King's Bishop Stakes (2007)
Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes (2007)
Hard Spun (foaled May 10, 2004 near Malvern, Pennsylvania) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse that finished second in the 2007 Kentucky Derby.
Hard Spun is a bay horse with a white star standing 16.2 hands high. He is from one of the last crops of three-time leading sire in North America Danzig. Hard Spun was owned during his racing career by Wilmington, Delaware automobile dealer Richard C. Porter, who races under the Fox Hill Farms banner.
At maturity, he reached 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) high.
Bred for endurance, at age two Hard Spun made his debut on October 22, 2006, at Delaware Park Racetrack, winning by an 8 ¾-length margin. He then showed he could handle sloppy tracks when he won the Port Penn Stakes on the same track by five lengths on November 14. In December, he won the 2006 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes at Philadelphia Park Racetrack, a race won in 2003 by Smarty Jones.
Entering the three-year-old racing season in 2007, jockey Mario Pino rode Hard Spun to his fourth straight win, capturing the January's Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. In his next start on February 19 in the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, he was sent off as the 2-5 betting favorite. However, the colt finished fourth to winner Teuflesberg, who was ridden by Stewart Elliott. Trainer Larry Jones said that Hard Spun had a difficult time with his footing on Oaklawn's dirt surface and decided to skip the racetrack's Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby. Instead, Hard Spun was sent to compete in the Lane's End Stakes on the Polytrack at Turfway Park in Northern Kentucky. On March 24, Hard Spun scored his fifth win in six starts with a 3¼-length victory in the Lane's End Stakes in a strong time of 1:49 2/5 for the 1⅛-mile event.
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