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Tank's Prospect
Tank's Prospect
Sire	Mr. Prospector
Grandsire	Raise a Native
Dam	Midnight Pumpkin
Damsire	Pretense
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1982
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Edward A. Seltzer
Owner	Eugene V. Klein
Trainer	D. Wayne Lukas
Record	14: 5-2-2
Earnings	US$1,355,645
Major wins
	El Camino Real Derby (1985); Arkansas Derby (1985) American Classic Race wins:; Preakness Stakes (1985)

Tank's Prospect (May 2, 1982 – March 2, 1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.

Background

Bred by Edward A. Seltzer, he was purchased for $625,000 at the 1983 Keeneland July Selected Yearling sale by trainer D. Wayne Lukas for his client, Eugene Klein. Klein named the horse after Paul "Tank" Younger, a former National Football League player and executive with Klein's San Diego Chargers football team.^{[citation needed]}

Racing career

At age two, Tank's Prospect won his first start, a six-furlong race at California's Santa Anita Park. While he did not win a major race that year, in the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile he finished second to winner Chief's Crown and ahead of third-place finisher Spend A Buck. Racing at age three in 1985, Tank's Prospect won the El Camino Real Derby and Arkansas Derby^[2] before running seventh in the Kentucky Derby. He then ran in the Preakness Stakes. Ridden by Pat Day, he caught the favorite, Chief's Crown, close to the finish and won by a head.^[3] The winning time of 1:53.4 was, at the time, considered a stakes record,^[4] although a commission in 2012 determined that Secretariat is the official record-holder at 1:53.0.^[5] In the third leg of the Triple Crown, Tank's Prospect broke down at the top of the stretch in the Belmont Stakes and did not finish the race. The injury ended his racing career.

Stud record

Retired to stud duty, Tank's Prospect met with modest success. One of his best runners, Real Cash, won the American Derby and San Felipe Stakes.

Tank's Prospect was standing at Venture Farms in Aubrey, Texas, when he died on March 2, 1995, from a ruptured arterial blood vessel.

Breeding

Pedigree of Tank's Prospect
Sire Mr. Prospector bay 1970	Raise a Native ch. 1961	Native Dancer	Polynesian
		Native Dancer	Geisha
		Raise You	Case Ace
		Raise You	Lady Glory
	Gold Digger bay 1962	Nashua	Nasrullah
		Nashua	Segula
		Sequence	Count Fleet
		Sequence	Miss Dogwood
Dam Midnight Pumpkin bay 1977	Pretense drk.brn. 1963	Endeavor	British Empire
		Endeavor	Himalaya
		Imitation	Hyperion
		Imitation	Flattery
	Me Next bay 1960	Rough'n Tumble	Free for All
		Rough'n Tumble	Roused
		Iltis	War Relic
		Iltis	We Hail