Seattle Slew
| Seattle Slew | |
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Seattle Slew as an older horse
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| Sire | Bold Reasoning |
| Grandsire | Boldnesian |
| Dam | My Charmer |
| Damsire | Poker |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | February 15, 1974 |
| Died | May 7, 2002 (aged 28) |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Dark bay or brown |
| Breeder | Ben S. Castleman |
| Owner | Mickey and Karen L. Taylor, Tayhill Stable/Jim Hill, et. al. |
| Racing colors | Black, yellow yolk, yellow hoops on sleeves, yellow cap, black pompom. |
| Trainer |
William H. Turner, Jr. Douglas R. Peterson |
| Record | 17: 14–2–0 |
| Earnings | $1,208,726 |
| Major wins | |
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Champagne Stakes (1976) Kentucky Derby (1977) Preakness Stakes (1977) Belmont Stakes (1977) |
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| Awards | |
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10th U.S. Triple Crown Champion (1977) U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1976) U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1977) American Horse of the Year (1977) U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1978) Leading sire in North America (1984) North American leading broodmare sire (1995, 1996) #9 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century NTRA "Moment of the Year" (2002) |
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| Honours | |
| National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1981) | |
| Last updated on February 18, 2011 | |
Champagne Stakes (1976)
Flamingo Stakes (1977)
Wood Memorial Stakes (1977)
Marlboro Cup (1978)
Woodward Stakes(1978)
Stuyvesant Handicap(1978)
Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred race horse who won the Triple Crown in 1977—the tenth of twelve horses to accomplish the feat. He is the only horse to have won the Triple Crown while having been undefeated in any race previous. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Seattle Slew was ranked ninth.
Joe Hirsch of the Daily Racing Form wrote: "Every time he ran he was an odds-on favorite, and the response to his presence on the racetrack, either for a morning workout or a major race, was electric. 'Slewmania' was a virulent and widespread condition."
Seattle Slew was a dark brown colt with a small white patch of hair by his left rear hoof bred by Ben S. Castleman. He was sired by Bold Reasoning who won the Jersey Derby and Withers Stakes in 1971. His dam My Charmer went on to produce the 2000 Guineas winner Lomond and Seattle Dancer.
Horse owners since the early 1970s, Karen Taylor was a former flight attendant, and her husband, Mickey Taylor, was a lumberman. They lived in White Swan, Washington. Their friend Dr. Jim Hill, a veterinarian, recommended that they buy Seattle Slew, a son of Bold Reasoning out of the mare My Charmer, at a 1975 Fasig-Tipton yearling auction. Seattle Slew was foaled at Ben Castleman's White Horse Acres Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Hill and his wife, Sally, had met the Taylors through the horse business. In partnership, they bought 13 prospects, including Seattle Slew, who was sold for $17,500 (equivalent to $78,000 in 2016). They named him for the city of Seattle and the sloughs which loggers once used to transport heavy logs. Karen felt that the spelling of slough—a slow-moving channel of the Pacific Northwest—would be too hard for people to remember, so the spelling was changed to Slew. A later co-owner was Glenn Rasmussen, the accountant for the equine partnerships.
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