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.