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Ten Broeck (June 29 1872 – June 28 1887) was an American U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse whose 1878 match race win in Louisville against the great California mare Mollie McCarty was immortalized in the Kentucky folk song commonly called Molly and Tenbrooks.Bred by John Harper at his farm near Midway Kentucky Ten Broeck was sired by United Kingdom import Phaeton a son of Baron Mayer de Rothschild’s stallion King Tom. Ten Broeck’s dam was Fannie Holton.