Following a second-place finish to Mobil in the Plate Trial Stakes, Rock Again was a legitimate Plate player and in any other year, he might have won it. Unfortunately, he was from the same foal crop as the great Wando, a cruising winner of the Plate and the eventual Triple Crown winner.
Rock Again emerged from the Plate with a hairline fracture in a foreleg and missed a year of racing. In fact, he had only a scattered number of races over the next three years before he was officially retired in 2006.
As with a lot of retired Stronach racehorses, Rock Again joined Stacie Clark at the owner’s popular Adena Springs Retirement Program at the Aurora farm and began the process of being re-trained into a riding horse.