The legacy of famed Maryland-bred mare Jameela grows as her Mr. Prospector son Gulch is set to enter the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday, Aug. 7 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Eclipse Award champion Breeders' Cup winner was voted in this year by the Historic Review Category committee.

Bred in Kentucky by Peter Brant, who purchased Jameela during her racing career, Gulch was the mare's first foal. He was a star from the start, winning five of seven starts at 2, including the Grade 1 Hopeful and Grade 1 Futurity. He scored a total of 11 stakes, all graded, and earned an Eclipse Award when capping his career with a victory in the 1988 Breeders' Cup Sprint-G1.

Trained throughout his career by Hall of Famers, first by LeRoy Jolley and later D. Wayne Lukas, Gulch raced from 1986 through 1988, went 13-8-3 from 32 starts and earned $3,095,521. He was a multiple Grade 1 winner each season, and successful at distances from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth. Seven of his victories came at the Grade 1 level, and he is one of only six horses to win the Metropolitan Handicap multiple times. Named champion sprinter in 1988, the bay went on to become a prolific sire, counting among his 74 stakes winners Kentucky Derby-G1/Belmont Stakes-G1 winner, champion and leading sire Thunder Gulch, himself sire of Hall of Famer Point Given.

Jameela, a daughter of Maryland stallion Rambunctious, was the first Maryland-bred to earn more than $1 million. She was bred by Betty Worthington of Bel Air, Md., a small-scale Thoroughbred breeder who raced Jameela until the sale to Brant. Jameela was the first foal out of Worthington's homebred Asbury Mary, by Seven Corners, a half-sister to stakes winner Sarah Percy who was a modest winner for Worthington before retiring to the broodmare band.

Jameela lived up to her name, which means "beautiful" in Arabic. Unraced at 2, trainer Hyman (Hap) Ravich sent her out for her debut at Pimlico in April 1979, which she won by a neck. She won her first five starts, including the Dogwood Stakes at Bowie. Never worse than third in 13 outings that year, she defeated older fillies and mares in Laurel's First Lady Handicap, was second to the previous year's Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old filly It's in the Air in the Grade 1 Delaware Oaks, and was named Maryland-bred champion 3-year-old filly.

The next year, Jameela campaigned across Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York and Maryland, hitting the board in eight stakes in 20 starts to earn a second state-bred title.

Her next two seasons were even more remarkable, earning back-to-back Maryland-bred Horse of the Year titles in 1981 and 1982 while runner-up twice for Eclipse Award honors. In 1981 she won five stakes, including the Maskette-G1 at Belmont Park and the Ladies' Handicap-G1 at Aqueduct, and ran in four consecutive Grade 1 races in New York without finishing worse than third.

That fall, Worthington sold her champion to Brant for $840,000.

Jameela raced from February through August in 1982, finishing fourth or better in all nine starts and adding graded stakes wins in the Delaware Handicap-G1 and Molly Pitcher Handicap-G2 before an injury ended her career; Brant turned down a $3 million offer for her that year and retired her to his broodmare band. Her career numbers were 27 wins - 16 in stakes -- with 15 seconds (12 stakes) and six thirds (five stakes) from 58 starts, and she finished fourth or better 52 times, while earning $1,038,704.

Jameela produced but two foals for Brant, Gulch and his allowance-winning full brother Big Mukora -- before dying of colic in 1985.

When the Maryland-bred Thoroughbred Hall of Fame was established in 2013, she was one of 12 inducted in the inaugural class.

Gulch will be one of 11 enshrined during the 2026 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Fasig-Tipton's Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion starting at 10:30 a.m. Joining him are Kona Gold and Mongo, trainers Christophe Clement and John Shirreffs, and Pillars of the Turf Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, Dr. Robert Copelan, Seth Hancock, G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and Joseph Widener.

Legendary broadcaster and horsewoman Charlsie Cantey will serve as master of ceremonies. The event is open to the public and free to attend (seating is limited). Doors open at 9:30 a.m. The ceremony will also be streamed live on the Museum website at racingmuseum.org.

Brant has loaned his original oil paintings of Gulch and Jameela, both by renowned equine artist Richard Stone Reeves, to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame to mark the occasion. The paintings are hanging in the Museum's 20th Century Gallery.