Whitney Handicap
Racing at four in 1988, he was transferred to trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Lukas shortened most of his races to 1⅛ mile or less, and Gulch won the Metropolitan Handicap, the Carter Handicap, and, in a battle of the sexes, placed a very close second in the Whitney Handicap to Personal Ensign. He also won the Breeders' Cup Sprint that fall and was named 1988's U.S. Outstanding Sprint Horse.