OCEANPORT, N.J. - Of this year’s celebrated crop of 3-year-olds, there might not be a more versatile runner than Hard Spun. He has won stakes on conventional dirt surfaces and synthetic surfaces. He has won stakes races going short and going long. He has won on a fast track and on a sloppy track.

What he hasn’t done, it seems, is win when everybody’s watching, and that has made Hard Spun perhaps the most underappreciated, overlooked runner in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Monmouth Park. (via Hard Spun News)