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Bay colt foaled in 1933. Died in 1947. By Hard Tack-Swing On, by Whisk Broom II. Breeder: Mrs. H.C. Phipps of Wheatley Stable. Owner: Charles S. Howard. Trainer: Tom Smith. Seabiscuit's career began slowly and consisted primarily of claiming races. By age 4 he was setting track records and earning championship awards.

Three Chimneys Farm is honored to have had the opportunity to care for and manage Seattle Slew for 17 years. We will be forever grateful to his original owners, Karen and Mickey Taylor and Jim and Sally Hill, and to the Seattle Slew Syndicate for entrusting us with this great champion. Seattle Slew was a remarkable horse, a legend in his time and a great tribute to the Thoroughbred breed.

In the event, he dismissed the doom theorists with a performance of a different class to his opponents which saw him recapture favouritism for the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup. Although Senor El Betrutti sought to make the early running, Teeton Mill's effervescence at his fences took him to the front.

Smarty Jones is by Elusive Quality, the Gainsborough Farm stallion who sired ten stakes winners in 2003, which made him the leading sophmore sire that year. Among his first crop was Elusive City, who was voted champion two-year-old in France and Great Notion, winner of the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn.

When Swain won in 1998 he became the first six-year-old to win in the race's history. Twenty-three years after Dahlia, Godolphin's model of consistency, Swain, became only the second horse to win back-to-back runnings of the King George. During a career that lasted until he was six years old, Swain won four Group One races and was placed in another four.

Point Given Voted 2001 Horse of the Year, by Steve Haskin. Once again, the cheers resounded for Point Given, as the towering chestnut colt was awarded Horse of the Year honors at the 31st annual Eclipse Awards Dinner Feb. 18 at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

Gary Ross reworks the story of Seabiscuit, the champion racehorse of the Depression era, into a redemption myth. This real-life, knobby-legged Pegasus, the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book, is tailor-made for writer-director Gary Ross, who hits every scene for maximum choke-up appeal.

Secretariat - 9th Triple Crown Winner. The name Secretariat is synonymous with horse racing. In 1973, Secretariat won the first triple crown in a quarter-century at the Belmont Stakes, where he won by thirty-one lengths and his time of 2:24 for the one-and-a-half-mile race set a world record that may never be broken.