“Though he knows he won’t get the chance to prove it, trainer Larry Jones believes Hard Spun would make an excellent 4-year-old. The breeding rights to Hard Spun, the Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness third-place finisher, were sold to Darley Stable over the weekend with the stipulation the horse is retired at year’s end.”

I am utterly and completely appalled by this news. This tidbit was actually buried in the “Times Squared drops out section of the article.”

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