Swale | |
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Sire | Seattle Slew |
Grandsire | Bold Reasoning |
Dam | Tuerta |
Damsire | Forli |
Sex | Colt |
Foaled | April 21, 1981 |
Country | United States ![]() |
Colour | Dark Bay/Brown |
Breeder | Claiborne Farm |
Owner | Claiborne Farm Silks: Orange, Orange Cap |
Trainer | Woody Stephens |
Record | 14: 9-2-2 |
Earnings | $1,583,660 |
Major wins | |
Breeders' Futurity Stakes
(1983) Belmont Futurity Stakes (1983) Saratoga Special Stakes (1983) Young America Stakes (1983) Hutcheson Stakes (1984) Florida Derby (1984) American Classic Race wins: Kentucky Derby (1984) Belmont Stakes (1984) |
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Awards | |
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1984) | |
Honours | |
Aiken
Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1985) Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park |
Swale (April 21, 1981 – June 17, 1984) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. A son of the 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, Swale was trained by Woody Stephens and ridden by Laffit Pincay, Jr., both now members of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Swale's dam, the stakes winning, Tuerta, was born with one eye. Her name means "one-eyed" in Spanish.
Swale won the Florida Derby en route to winning the Kentucky Derby, finished seventh in the Preakness Stakes then came back to win the longest and most gruelling of the U.S. Triple Crown races, the Belmont Stakes.
On June 17, 1984, eight days after the Belmont Stakes, Swale died of a massive heart attack during a bath. He was buried at Claiborne Farm.
Swale posthumously received the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Male Horse for 1984. He earned $1,583,660 during his two-year racing career.
The Swale Stakes, an annual Grade II stakes race for three-year-olds at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida, was named in his honor.
Sire Seattle Slew |
Bold Reasoning | Boldnesian | Bold Ruler |
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Alanesian | |||
Reason To Earn | Hail To Reason | ||
Sailing Home | |||
My Charmer | Poker | Round Table | |
Glamour | |||
Fair Charmer | Jet Action | ||
Myrtle Charm | |||
Dam Tuerta |
Forli | Aristophanes | Hyperion |
Commotion | |||
Trevisa | Advocate | ||
Veneta | |||
Continue | Double Jay | Balladier | |
Broomshot | |||
Courtesy | Nasrullah | ||
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