Seatle Slew...dead ...sniff..I am saddened

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HIS DEATH CAME 25 years to the day after Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby. The horse followed by winning the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes, the other legs of thoroughbred horse racing’s most prestigious series. Triple Crown • Seattle Slew dies • War Emblem wins Kentucky Derby • Litke: Baffert, Salman won't apologize for win • Brunker: Triple Crown not likely for War Emblem • War Emblem tough sell for previous owners • WP: Baffert's last laugh • Litke: Baffert fueled by last year's loss • DRF: McPeek still proud of Harlan's Holiday • Final Derby results, chart • More on Kentucky Derby He was the only living Triple Crown winner. Affirmed, who won the last Triple Crown in 1978, died in January 2001. “Seattle Slew passed away in his sleep,” read a release issued by Hill ’n’ Dale Farm, where Slew recently was moved after a second operation on his spine. Seattle Slew, a big, black burly stallion in his later years, was 28. Slew, who won 14 of 17 lifetime starts and earned $1,208,726, was in failing health the past two years and underwent two delicate spinal fusion operations. Advertisement

Last month, Slew was a bit wobbly after the second surgery, which was to “normalize,” him, owner Mickey Taylor said. The first one, Taylor said last month during an interview, “saved his life.” Bought for a bargain-basement $17,500 by Taylor, a former lumberman from Washington, and former partner, Jim Hill, Slew sired 101 stakes winners. They include 1984 Kentucky Derby winner Swale, A.P. Indy, Capote and Slew o’ Gold, and have earned more than $75 million in purses.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

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I saw your post on IC, and then found another with a story at Lucianne, but when I went back to IC to post it, I saw you had found a more indepth story to post.

He lived a long life. Now he can go on to win in horse heaven.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


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