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	Horse Racing: Seattle Slew, Triple Crown winner, prolific sire, dies
		Seattle Slew, who died on the 25th anniversary of his Kentucky Derby victory, was the kind of prodigy that racing people invariably describe as a freak, and by the third race of his career he was obviously destined for greatness.
		Seattle Slew, the winner of the 1977 Triple Crown, died yesterday on the 25th anniversary of his Kentucky Derby victory.
		When Slew was ready for a rest after the Triple Crown, the owners overruled their trainer and made the decision to ship the colt cross-country for a race at Hollywood Park in California.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/other/20020508slew0508p7.asp (1025 words)

	Seattle Slew
		When Seattle Slew gave a great sigh and closed his eyes for the last time on May 7, exactly twenty-five years to the day that he had begun his successful quest for a Triple Crown, something shifted in the Thoroughbred breed.
		Slew was a horse who began his life looking for respect, earned it, lost it and earned it again and again until every Doubting Thomas left had to acknowledge what had been there all along – a quality of the most genuine sort.
		Slew fairly flew though his juvenile year and he was so impressive in winning all three of his starts that there was no question about his earning a championship even though Run Dusty Run had won four stakes, three of them graded.
	www.reines-de-course.com /seattle_slew.htm (1783 words)

	Seattle Slew in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		'Seattle Slew' (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse that won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, only the tenth horse to accomplish the feat.
		In retirement, Seattle Slew stood at stud at the Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky.
		Slew was the leading sire of 1984, when his son Swale, who died later that year, won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Seattle_Slew (508 words)

	Seattle Slew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 - May 7, 2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse that won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, only the 10th horse to accomplish the feat.
		He was one of very few horses to win the Kentucky Derby with an undefeated record.
		In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Seattle Slew was ranked #9.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Seattle_Slew (125 words)

	ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Seattle Slew dies on 25th anniversary of Derby win
		Slew died in his sleep at Hill 'n' Dale Farm, where he recently was moved after a second operation on his spine, the farm said.
		Slew was moved to Hill 'n' Dale, a quieter farm, because he was too close to the breeding shed and it caused him to become agitated when mares arrived, Mickey Taylor said.
		Slew's retirement in 1978 at age 4 seemed premature, but his career as a stallion was infinitely more lucrative.
	espn.go.com /horse/news/2002/0507/1379099.html (946 words)

	ESPN Classic - Seattle Slew exploded from humble beginnings
		Though Seattle Slew developed a bad cough and missed that year's fall races, he was voted Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old male.
		In April 2000, Seattle Slew was suffering from a neurological problem when he underwent surgery to fuse the joint between two vertebrae in his neck.
		Slew, who couldn't walk before the operation, once again stood tall and he was returned to the breeding shed at Three Chimneys Farm in 2001.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Seattle_Slew.html (1399 words)

	CNNSI.com - Horse Racing - Last living Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew dies - Tuesday May 07, 2002 10:15 PM
		Slew, who won 14 of 17 lifetime starts and earned $1,208,726, had been ailing for the past two years with arthritis and underwent two delicate spinal fusion operations.
		Slew will be buried beneath a statue in a courtyard at Hill 'n' Dale, a lush 319-acre farm not far from Keeneland.
		Slew was moved to the quieter farm because he was too close to the breeding shed and it caused him to become agitated when mares arrived, Mickey Taylor said.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /horse_racing/news/2002/05/07/seattleslew_obit (607 words)

	Seattle Slew
		Farm is honored to have had the opportunity to care for and manage Seattle Slew for 17 years...
		Seattle Slew, the oldest Kentucky Derby winner and only Triple Crown winner still alive, died on May 7, 2002.
		Seattle Slew is the only horse in history to make it through the Triple Crown undefeated.
	www.macadomedia.com /seattleslew.html (205 words)

	USATODAY.com - Seattle Slew, last living Triple Crown winner, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Seattle Slew's first victory came at Belmont, and that also was where he locked up the Triple Crown and where, in 1978, he defeated Affirmed in the Marlboro Cup, the showdown between two Triple crown winners.
		Seattle Slew's second career, in the breeding shed, is what sets him apart as the most important Thoroughbred of the last quarter-century, and perhaps longer.
		Slew's age of 28 is said to be the human equivalent of being 90-100 years old.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/horses/stories/2002-05-07-seattle-slew.htm (1359 words)

	Seattle Slew - 1977 Triple Crown Winner
		Seattle Slew was purchased for the bargain price of $17,500 by Mickey Taylor for his wife Karen.
		Seattle Slew's next start was in March, in a Hialeah 7 furlong allowance race, which he won by 9 lengths.
		Seattle Slew broke through the gate, and after re-loading, Seattle Slew bounded out to the lead - but Affirmed and Life's Hope went right with him.
	www.horsehats.com /seattleslew.html (1040 words)

	Seattle Slew: 1977 Triple Crown Winner
		Seattle Slew was foaled at Ben Castleman's White Horse Acres on February 15 of 1974.
		Seattle Slew, not being a son of either Northern Dancer or then leading sire What a Pleasure, was purchased for the bargain price of $17,500 at the Keeneland Summer Yearling Sale by Mrs.
		Seattle Slew and Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, became the first two Triple Crown winners to meet on the racetrack when Seattle Slew beat the younger champion by three lengths in the Marlboro Cup, despite a jockey change.
	www.spiletta.com /UTHOF/seattleslew.html (1715 words)

	Triple Crown Heroes: Seattle Slew - bloodhorse.com
		Seattle Slew was to gallop around the huge 1 1/2-mile Belmont track which has been his headquarters for most of the year, but Kennedy pulled him up after only a half-mile.
		Slew's handlers are ardent admirers of the colt, but they realize that no horse can go through a fall, winter, and spring without a loss and not be lucky.
		That was it for Seattle Slew for the year, but he returned the following season to beat 1978 Triple Crown Affirmed in the Marlboro Cup at Belmont Park in the first-ever battle between two Triple Crown winners.
	www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=9897 (1006 words)

	Legendary Horses: Seattle Slew
		Of those 11 legendary animals, Seattle Slew was the only one to complete the Triple Crown with an undefeated record, as well as the only one to have been purchased at a public auction.
		Slew wasn't a particularly attractive horse, but he had the toughness of a championship boxer and the sort of intestinal fortitude and desire that the great warriors--human or equine--can't be taught, but have to be born with.
		Slew was laid to rest at Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, under a statue.
	www.prophetsplace.com /seattleslew.shtml (765 words)

	Trainer Remembers Seattle Slew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At 28 years of age Seattle Slew left a strong influence in the game through his offspring in the 24 years since he retired from racing.
		We made a few enemies with Seattle Slew because we were threatening the king and his realm was being threatened only four years later.
		Seattle Slew's best race may have been a defeat in his four-year-old year, according to Turner, who was fired after the three-year-old season.
	www.equisearch.com /equiwire_news/eqseattles2105/index.html (628 words)

	Slew the Coup, Son of Seattle Slew, Euthanized - bloodhorse.com
		Oklahoma stallion Slew the Coup, a member of the second crop of Seattle Slew, died Dec. 5 at age 24 of a ruptured intestine caused from complications from colic.
		Slew the Coup was bred by Seminole Syndicate and raced for Equusequity Stable, two outfits formed by Seattle Slew's owners, Karen and Mickey Taylor and Dr. Jim Hill and his wife, Sally.
		Slew the Coup not only possessed a solid race record, but also a pedigree similar to that of Seattle's Slew champion son, Slew o' Gold.
	www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=31280 (220 words)

	Seattle Slew - Thoroughbred Pedigree - Horse Betting
		Seattle Slew was a race horse that won the Triple Crown in 1977, only the 10th horse to accomplish the feat.
		Seattle Slew was purchased for a mere $17,500.
		Slew's Headpiece: Throughout Slew's 2 year old campaign he wore a ring bit to secure his tongue, but from the start of his 3-year-old campaign and ever since he wore an inverted Y distinctive headpiece made by Sure-Win.
	www.dannysheridan.com /horse-racing/fh-seattleslew.php (755 words)

	Seattle Slew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Seattle Slew will best be remembered as the only horse to go into the Derby undefeated and come out a Triple Crown Winner.
		In April, 2000, Seattle Slew was operated on to correct a spinal cord compression in his neck.
		Seattle Slew still stands at stud at three Chimneys farm, in Midway, Kentucky, and is part of one of the commonwealth's most successful Thoroughbred breeding operations.
	www.cswnet.com /~terandkr/slew.html (366 words)

	Sports: Seattle Slew, the last living Triple Crown winner, is dead
		Slew, as he was affectionately known, was the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated.
		Taylor and his wife, Karen, were constantly with Slew the past two years, moving from their Montana home to Lexington to be with him after the first operation.
		Seattle Slew won his first six races and had never trailed heading to the Derby on May 7, 1977.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/05/08/Sports/Seattle_Slew__the_las.shtml (623 words)

	Sports \| Story of Seattle Slew lives on \| Seattle Times Newspaper
		That would be Seattle Slew, the Thoroughbred that won the Kentucky Derby 30 years ago this weekend, the first of his three victories in the 1977 Triple Crown, an accomplishment only 10 other horses have achieved in 132 years.
		Seattle Slew beat Affirmed by three lengths in the Marlboro Cup at Belmont in September 1978, the first meeting in history of two Triple Crown winners.
		Slew was made an honorary member of the WSU Alumni Association, and the Taylors made a key connection in their commitment to "keeping this horse together."
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2003692832_slew04.html?syndication=rss (1340 words)

	Thoroughbred Champions -- Championing the Horse & the Sport
		The owners wished for Seattle Slew to run on the west coast, in the Swaps Stakes in early July, but trainer Turner didn't see the move as being in the colt's best interests, and besides, Slew needed a rest.
		Slew developed a life-threatening virus, and his future career looked to be in jeopardy.
		Seattle Slew bounded out to the lead, but Affirmed and Life's Hope went right with him.
	www.thoroughbredchampions.com /biographies/seatslew.htm (1280 words)

	National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
		Seattle Slew's purchase price of $17,500 was a bargain for the Taylor and Hill families.
		Seattle Slew's final race was the Stuyvesant Handicap, which he won carrying 134 pounds.
		Seattle Slew was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1981.
	www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=134 (285 words)

	Smarty Jones ready to join company with Seattle Slew
		Seattle Slew cost just $17,500 as a yearling, and Smarty Jones was bred in Pennsylvania and did not appear to have a fashionable pedigree at the time of his birth.
		Seattle Slew was already an established star by the time he won the Kentucky Derby.
		Seattle Slew raced one more year, as a 4-year-old, winning five of seven races that season and ending up with 14 victories in 17 career starts.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/23/SPGPK6QIOK1.DTL (926 words)

	The Day The Music Died - seattle slew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The horse, named Seattle Slew, was working big, smooth and a little too fast (110-1) for a youngster going six furlong for the first time.
		An earlier 58-2 grass workout by Seattle Slew was slowed down a bit (100-2) but that didn't matter, since it was credited to Seattle Sue.
		Seattle Slew, by the way, never started at Saratoga that summer because of a minor setback (he'd kicked his stall and inflamed a joint).
	www.clockerbob.com /chapter13.html (431 words)

	Seattle Slew
		Seattle Slew, the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated, died Tuesday morning in his sleep at Hill 'n' Dale Farm near Lexington.
		Seattle Slew had been the last remaining Triple Crown winner, and his passing leaves the Thoroughbred world without a living Triple Crown winner for the first time since Sir Barton first accomplished the feat in 1919.
		Seattle Slew will be bured at Hill 'n' Dale beneath a statue in a courtyard.
	members.tripod.com /lass_20/id15.html (373 words)

	Seattle Slew Dies - CBS News
		"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 was purchased for the bargain price of $17,500, and set records on his way to being named top two-year-old colt.
		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.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/05/07/national/main508216.shtml (408 words)

	CNNSI.com - Horse Racing - Seattle Slew to undergo spinal surgery - Thursday February 28, 2002 01:13 AM
		Posted: Thursday February 28, 2002 1:13 AM MIDWAY, Ky. (AP) -- Seattle Slew, winner of the 1977 Triple Crown, will undergo spinal surgery for the second time in two years and his future in the breeding shed is uncertain.
		Seattle Slew has been diagnosed with spinal cord compression, the same ailment that led to a spinal fusion in 2000.
		Seattle Slew was examined at the farm on Tuesday, and tests revealed the need for the surgery.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /horse_racing/news/2002/02/27/seattle_slew_surgery_ap (257 words)

	Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew dies - theage.com.au
		Seattle Slew, the last living Triple Crown winner, has died in his sleep on the 25th anniversary of his victory in the Kentucky Derby.
		"Seattle Slew is the best horse I ever rode and the best horse I ever saw," retired Hall of Fame jockey Angelo Cordero told the Chicago Tribune in 1990.
		Seattle Slew's greatness as a racehorse was a prelude to his stud career that began in 1979, the year after he was retired with a 17-race record of 14 wins, two seconds and a fourth.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/08/1019441521149.html (186 words)

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