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Winner also won a Triple Crown race 23% Derby/Classic winners include Unbridled, Ferdinand, Alysheba.
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Owned by a group that included baseball superstar Pete Rose, this horse beat Triple Crown contender Alysheba by a whopping 14 lengths in the Belmont after finishing second to that horse in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.
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But Alydar, with progeny like Alysheba, was the superior sire.
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Bet Twice went on to race six times the following year -- beating Alysheba again at the 1988 Pimlico Special.
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What began with a flush of panic in 1987 as Ferdinand and Alysheba dueled to a photo finish in the Breeders' Cup Classic, grew steadily into a debilitating anxiety by 2005.
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But Alysheba would twice get his revenge on Ferdinand the following winter.
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The following year Ferdinand defeated '87 Derby winner Alysheba by a nose in the Breeders' Cup Classic and the West Coasters went wild.
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Alysheba -- $500,000 Keeneland July select sale yearling in 1985. 1986,
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Jack Van Berg, who won the Derby and Preakness with Alysheba in 1987, said horses are just as sturdy nowadays as they used to be.
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But you cannot clip heels in the Derby and win, unless you're (1987 winner) Alysheba coming down the stretch.
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