“You don’t go out and buy a horse like that. You don’t go out and breed it. You just look up and there he is.”
That is how eloquently trainer Billy Turner spoke when he described Seattle Slew during a 2013 interview. Even in allowing the imagination to run wild, it would be hard to conceive of a tale as magnificent as that of Seattle Slew, the only horse to win the Triple Crown while undefeated.