Hard Spun's record-breaking first crop included 29 stakes horses, more than any other stallion before him. Among them were three individual G1 winners: 2012 Eclipse Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Questing, winner of the G1 Coaching Club American Oaks and G1 Alabama at Saratoga, plus G1 Mother Goose winner Zo Impressive and three-time turf G1 winner Hard Not To Like. Altogether his phenomenal first crop included eight Graded Stakes winners and 17 black-type winners.
January 22 2018
Hard Spun's first post-Japan juveniles race in 2018
The stallion who made the most successful start at stud ever is set to do it all over again
His second and third crops produced four more G1 winners: G1 Arlington Million winner Hardest Core, G1 Santa Anita Gold Cup winner Hard Aces, G1 Wood Memorial winner Wicked Strong, and G1 Awesome Again winner Smooth Roller. Hard Spun then spent one breeding season in Japan in 2014, with the resulting Japanese-bred crop now three-year-olds of 2018. Since his return to Kentucky in 2015, he has covered books of 157, 153, and 158 mares, respectively.
His first American-bred crop since his return from Japan are two-year-olds of 2018. They include a $900,000 Keeneland September colt who is a full brother to Hard Spun's multiple Graded Stakes winner Timeline. Winner of last year's G3 Peter Pan and G3 Pegasus Stakes, Timeline is back with trainer Chad Brown preparing for a four-year-old campaign.
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