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Middleground (1947–1972)was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.Ridden by 16-year-old apprentice jockey Bill Boland and trained by Max Hirsch both future U.S. Hall of Fame inductees Middleground won the 1950 Kentucky Derby finished second to Hill Prince after a rough trip in the Preakness Stakes and won the Belmont Stakes.Middleground died in 1972 and the gravesite is on the King Ranch in Kingsville Texas.