Welcome to the final night of the Met Mile Vault! Tonight's horses are good ones, they are 1994 winner Holy Bull and two time winner Gulch.
Gulch (Mr. Prospector x Jameela (Rambunctious)
Two wins, with two different jockeys and two different trainers. Gulch won the 1987 Met Mile with Pat Day on and LeRoy Jolly training. In this race, he would defeat Broad Brush who would sire 1994 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Concern. And oh yeah, Gulch was only 3 in this race.
In 1988, Gulch would defend his Met Mile win, but would be ridden by Jose Santos and trained by D. Wayne Lukas. In this race he would defeat Afleet, who would go onto sire Northern Afleet who in turn would sire 2005 Preakness and Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
Gulch would be named Champion Sprinter in 1988 with a win in the BC Sprint. He would go onto stand at Lanes End where become the sire of Kipling (sire of 2007 BC Mile winner Kip Deville), Court Vision (Kipling's full brother, a G1 winner himself), The Cliff's Edge and many more. However, his most famous foal is 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Thunder Gulch who would go onto sire G1 winners Balance (half sister to Zenyatta) and Point Given (who was also Horse of the Year). Gulch was recently penisoned and now lives at Old Friends.
Holy Bull (Great Above x Sharon Brown (Al Hattab))
After a diesastrous finish in the Derby, the Jimmy Croll trainee was taken off the Triple Crown trail and pointed to this race. As a 3 year (only Honour and Glory has won as a 3yo since), he would face older males in this race defeating Devil His Due (sire of Roses in May and Spite the Devil (personal favorite) and Cherokee Run (sire of War Pass).
Holy Bull stands at Darley at Jonabell Farm. Of course he is now known sire 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo and 2000 BC Juvy winner Macho Uno (sire of Macho Again).
So that's it for the Met Mile Vault, I know it was a little bit slimmed down then the Travers Vault was, but that is partically my fault. I'm probley going to be bringing this back for the DelCap, but we will see about that. Don't forget there is a live chat tomorrow night at a new time at 7:30 pm EDT. Also the HRBA nominations close on Monday!
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