1980's: Precisionist-Gulch Alysheba Photos
 

Enjoy:

Precisionist 1988



Gulch wins 1988 Met Mile



Kings Swan wins 1988 Tom Fool



Gulch 1988 with Mark Hennig (and yes that is Rick Dutrow with Kings Swan)

King's Swan-Alysheba-Bet Twice-Ogygian
 

Kings Swan



Ogygian 1987



Alysheba 1987 Haskell



Bet Twice

Lost Code Broad Brush 2X Grooooovy
 

Broad Brush



Broad Brush winning the 1987 Suburban



Lost Code 1987 Haskell



Groovy 1986 Santa Anita

Smile-Broom Dance-Taylor's Special-Love That Mac
 

Smile 1986 Breeders Cup Sprint



Taylor's Special with Randy Romero



Love That Mac



Broom Dance 1983 Vagrancy (Old Aqueduct paddock)

Maudlin-1988 Iselin-Zany Tactics-Gone West
 

Maudlin 1983 Forego



Alysheba and Bet Twice drive for the wire-1988 Iselin (notice old train wires for NJ Transit train)



Zany Tactics with Cowboy Jack-Aqueduct 1987



Gone West 1987 Whitney

I can never see too many photos of these past greats. Thank you for sharing them.

Four of them retired to Old Friends. Precisionist (RIP) - what a sharp horse (I am staring at a framed photo of him at the Breeders' Cup), I can remember how thrilled Michael Blowen was to get him. Taylor's Special was there, too. Lost him the same year as Precisionist. You can still see Ogy and Gulch at the farm today.

Great stuff Gene, Thanks for posting.

Nice!

I love the Alysheba - Bet Twice photo!

Those are great pictures. Thanks.

I had never seen Broad Brush before, he was awesome looking. Great thread

Very, very nice...................I loved Gulch.

Ogygian is still alive?

I thought he was exported somewhere and had died.

I can barely remember seeing more than a couple of his progeny run.

He's at Old Friends. He's missing an eye, but comes over readily for carrots. I'll post one of him tonight.

Whatever happened to him? Did he go to Japan? I guess he was a total flop at stud.

I remember, I think it was Nerud, being quoted early in Ogygians career, when the hype was still massive on him, that he was worth $105 million as a stallion prospect.

I was like, "uh, yeahhhhhhhhhhh".

Fun horse however!

Speaking of Ogygian, his dam Gonfalon, was pretty useful.

Besides Ogygian, she dropped Fair to All, the dam of the very underrated Honour and Glory.

Also, she produced Lookinforthebigone, a horse Lukas rushed and ruined.

Now that was an impressive specimen. I thought he was going to be an awesome horse, and he sure looked the part. Another Lukas butchery.

Does anyone else remember Lookinforthebigone?

Thank you! Gulch was the first horse I ever followed from start to finish and he was pretty special.

I do - I think he was a big chestnut, if I recall.

Well he did beat Ketoh.

Taylor's Special is one of my favorites. I'll never forget his battles with Silent King as 3yos in 1984. Thanks for posting the photos.

Yes, he was!

A reddish chestnut if my fading minds eye is correct.

Even better looking when Dickie Small got rid of that hack Vincent Bracciale.

I'm not knocking Ogygian, mind you. He was a pretty nice horse. I just couldn't see a total speedball son of Damascus worth 100+ mil, that's all.

Ketoh, I thought he was going to be a real good one too. Lukas at his finest.

Yes, I believe he had a big blaze on his face also........I forget who is sire was, though it's on the tip of my tongue.

See the bridle BB had on? An overcheck is almost never seen now. Funny that in all those pictures not a single horse is wearing a figure 8 bridle that 1/2 the field in any 2011 race now wears.

Awesome as always Gene! Thanks... More!

Thanks for sharing, especially the one of Ogygian, he's an Uncle (sire's side) to our mare (in my AV) :)

...whats an "overcheck"

the mid to late eighties were the best.

great pics, bring back fond memories! keep 'em coming!!

His mom was special too,a throwback beyond compare when it came to durability and gameness. She travelled outside of restricted company in Maryland to Saratoga and suffered her first defeat to Blitey in the Test stakes. Years later that edition of the test came back strong, from a breeding standpoint, when both mares produced back to back BC sprint winners.

Thanks Revidere for the great photos.

Jameela? I never saw her race, but her son sure took after her - he danced every dance and did it remarkably well. His back to back Met Miles were really special accomplishments to me -plus his win in the Sprint. Jolley kept running him at middle distances, where he acquitted himself well, but Lukas made the right choice in turning him into a sprinter/miler. He turned out to be a good, solid sire as well.......hard to believe he's in his late 20's.

State Dinner.

Great photos that just keep getting better with time. Tx.

Thanks! State Dinner, wasn't he a half brother to Life's Magic?

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