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Originally Posted by Perrault Robbed
What Slew O' Gold did in the fall of his 3 year old season was remarkable.
How do his figures compare to his 4 years old campaign?
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Slew O' Gold was a Seattle Slew half brother to Coastal.
I don't have figures for Slew O' Gold. I looked and couldn't find anything -- and the DRF Archive site is down right now.
Coastal was one of the most underrated 3yo's you will ever see. When he won the Peter Pan Stakes by 13 lengths in his final Belmont Stakes prep -- he ran a 122 figure -- and that figure is based off of the Beyer pars of today...and not the Pars of eight years ago where it would have been a 126 or 127.
Interestingly, in the history of the Haskell, Coastal is the only horse to ever win carrying 127lbs or more. A few have failed to win under that impost (Spend a Buck, Little Current) -- Holy Bull carried 126lbs to victory.
Here is a link where I detailed the process for making old figs and used Coastal's Peter Pan as an example.
http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...hlight=Coastal