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Virtually every edition of the Breeders’ Cup lingers long in the memory, but anyone who attended the 1988 meeting at Churchill Downs can count themselves especially fortunate. Among the male contestants were numerous luminaries whose names are still very familiar more than 25 years later, such as Alysheba, Seeking the Gold, Forty Niner, Easy Goer and Gulch. However, they were arguably outshone by the displays of some of the fillies, specifically the final appearances by two 4-year-olds whose brilliant careers were to earn them admission to the Hall of Fame.