Just twice did the doors open for him: the Budweiser-Hawthorne Gold Cup (G2) and the Paterson Handicap (G2). Cryptoclearance had also finished fourth and third, respectively, behind Alysheba in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1).Īt 4 in 1988, Cryptoclearance continued knocking on the door of big stakes races, with surface or pace scenario often proving his Achilles' heel. He missed Bet Twice in the Belmont, leaving both Gulch and Alysheba behind, and fell to Java Gold in the Travers Stakes (G1), with Bet Twice, Gulch, and Alysheba wallowing in the wake. In 15 starts that year (all stakes), he failed to hit the board just twice (both fifth-place finishes). Scotty Schulhofer trained him throughout a 44-start, four-year career in which he banked $3,376,327. Farm and sold for $190,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale to Phillip Teinowitz who named him Cryptoclearance. Prospector, and Dahlia and 1984 produced such notables as champions Alysheba, Capote, and Gulch as well as the most expensive yearling ever sold at auction, the $13.1 million group 2 winner Seattle Dancer.īut perhaps one of the best all-around of this heady 1984 bunch was a dark bay colt bred in Kentucky by Thomas P. Duke the 1966 foals (20,288) contained Majestic Prince, Arts and Letters, and Ack Ack along with the outstanding fillies Shuvee and Ta Wee in the 1970 crop of 24,361 youngsters were Secretariat, Forego, Mr. From the 1954 crop of 9,064 foals came Bold Ruler, Round Table, Gallant Man, and the star-crossed Gen. Over the decades that Thoroughbred foals have been born for racing, there is usually at least one year that produces a number of exceptional runners that set that year apart from its 10-year contemporaries.
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