It was muddy going at the Saratoga Race Course in 1983 when Swale won the Special Stakes. He was two, ridden by Eddie Maple, and that same season he would also win the Belmont Futurity Stakes, the Breeders’ Futurity Stakes and the Young America Stakes. He won the Kentucky Derby in 1984, which everyone remembers. He’d come second, that year, in the Lexington Stakes; it was the sloppy going he didn’t like. Swale died that year, too, eight days after he’d won at Belmont Park. He collapsed walking to his stall after a bath. They buried him at Claiborne Farm.
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Beautiful and poignant for those who know about racing stables and love horses