Rock Hard Ten Will Stand at Lane’s End

Posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Recently retired and multiple grade I winner, Rock Hard Ten, will stand the 2006 breeding season at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky. The son of the late leading sire Kris S. will stand for $50,000.

Rock Hard Ten was also the impressive winner of the Goodwood Breeders’ Cup Handicap (gr. II) at Oak Tree Oct. 1 in what would be his final race.

The classic-placed Rock Hard Ten is out of the champion Mr. Prospector mare Tersa. Mr. Prospector is currently the leading broodmare sire in North America with more than $11.8 million in progeny earnings. Tersa was named champion 2-year-old filly in France in 1988 after winning two stakes including the Prix Morny (Fr-I).

Rock Hard Ten was bred in Kentucky by Madeleine A. Paulson, who has since married T. Boone Pickens. The dark bay or brown colt raced for Ernie Moody’s Mercedes Stable and Madeleine Pickens.

A winner of seven of 11 starts, Rock Hard Ten earned $1,870,000 and won or placed in seven graded stakes including the Preakness Stakes (gr. I). He won the seven-furlong Malibu and 10-furlong Santa Anita Handicap (both gr. I) in the same season, joining Spectacular Bid and Round Table as the only horses to pull off that feat.

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