 With the Travers Stakes win, he became only the fourth horse to win the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and Travers (Twenty Grand, Whirlaway and Shut Out were the others).Other victories in 1995 included the Swaps Stakes, and the Kentucky Cup Classic Handicap.Thunder Gulch was retired in the fall of his three-year-old campaign after finishing fifth to American Horse of the Year Cigar in a "much-anticipated showdown" for the Jockey Club Gold Cup.