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New Yorkers can be born anywhere. Then one day they just show up here and fit right in. Seattle Slew, who died last week, at the age of twenty-eight, was that sort of New Yorker. He had the native blend of showmanship and come-from-behind attitude, even though he was bred in Kentucky by a barkeep and bought at auction for $17,500 by a hard-partying gang of four (a logger, a stewardess, a veterinarian, and his wife). They bought him, as Karen Taylor (the stewardess) said, because "he had pizzazz and he gave you that eye."
As long as Slew was a racehorse, New York was home: he ran twelve of his seventeen races in New York or in the Meadowlands, notching ten of his fourteen wins here, including his first, his last, and his most ...