Seattle slew movie

With his blood at the boiling point, he stared daggers at For the Moment for most of the running, while setting torrid fractions. He finally bounded to the lead, then in an instant, shut down the engines at the eighth pole, just as Turner had taught him. It was as if he knew his trainer had bigger plans for him and needed to save something for another day.

Turner was forced to watch the race on a TV monitor in the grandstand when he was unable to find his way to the boxes through the massive crowd.

When Slew broke badly, Turner lost him and for a good portion of the race was following the wrong horse. Instead of coming out of the race tired, Slew was a wild horse.

He had run like an angry bronc, bullying his way through traffic, and he was still angry after the race. I had to take him from the hotwalker and he ran over me a couple of times. After the race, we had a couple of beers outside the barn, and Mickey had some champagne brought in. We bedded Slew down, and I bedded down right along with him.

On June 11, Slew easily won the Belmont in front of 71, fans, becoming the only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history. It had been a long, hard road, but he was now a living legend destined for immortality. Billy Turner had accomplished the improbable task of getting this ball of fire to relax and stretch his speed out to a mile and a half.

I was drained. Turner had to take Slew to Dr. Each time, he had to tranquilize him. When they shipped to California, Slew had to be tranquilized for the fourth time. He was dull before and during the race and never ran a lick. Polston liked Turner and liked the Taylors, and it was hard for him to watch their impending breakup unfold. Jim tried to get Billy to take care of his problem for a year.

In the end, we did what we had to do. I appreciate everything they did for me and have no hard feelings whatsoever. I just feel very fortunate to have had a horse like Slew come along in my lifetime.

And after practically drinking myself to death, I still was able to make a solid comeback and am grateful for everything. Here I am the only living trainer to have won the Triple Crown. But he never stopped thinking of Slew and all the horse did for him. Nobody can say that. By defeating Affirmed decisively on two occasions, he became the only Triple Crown winner ever to defeat a Triple Crown winner.

In his career finale, the Stuyvesant Handicap at Aqueduct, he missed the track record by two-fifths of a second, winning in hand under pounds. In the Marlboro Cup, when Steve Cauthen, aboard Affirmed, decided to sit back and wait before going after him, Slew made him pay the price. In what many believe to be the greatest losing effort of all time, he somehow managed to battle back the entire length of the stretch against the top-class Exceller in the mile and a half Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Seemingly exhausted after breaking through the gate before the race, having his rider lose an iron, and then fighting off Affirmed and his pacesetter in suicidal fractions, Slew was passed at the quarter pole by Exceller, who had made up some 20 lengths and appeared to be on his way to an easy victory.

Slew, however, dug in on the sloppy track and kept fighting back, only to fall a nose short. Many feel it was this race more than his victories that stamped his greatness.

After all these years, people still talk about the courage he displayed on that wet, autumn afternoon. Not even the controversies that surrounded the horse could diminish his stature in the eyes of the public. Then Polston, resigned. Even with all the controversies, I still thank God for all the wonderful memories. No one can ever take that away from us.

All I can think of is what an incredible story it was and how lucky we are to have been a part of it. But he had the heart and the fight. While at Three Chimneys Farm, he suffered from a severe back problem that required two surgeries and also suffered from arthritis.

Even as his condition began to deteriorate and he had problems keeping his balance, he never stopped fighting. But his youthful spirit finally lost out to the reality of old age. And so, as Seattle Slew lay in his stall on the anniversary of his Kentucky Derby victory, it was Derby Day once again. The crowd was cheering. He was bulling his way through horses and running free. The finish line was getting closer. There was no turning back.

It was the perfect time to say farewell. His supporters rhapsodize over him as though he is a four-legged Nureyev, extolling virtues of his musculature, his grace, his urine specimens.

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