Golden Slew

1999 – 2024
Bay Thoroughbred Stallion, 16.3 hands
Sire: Seattle Slew, Triple Crown winner, Leading Sire
Dam:  Golden Bri, G1 Stakes winner of $516K

For years, “Slew” was our go-to stallion to add size, substance, correct conformation, speed and an excellent mind to any mare. Those qualities were passed down to his daughters in our broodmare band and will make them and their daughters invaluable producers for us. We expect the first foal out of one of Golden Slew’s granddaughters in 2025.

Slew arrived here in February, 2014 and we were blessed to have him for 10 years.  He’d spent his entire stud career down south, so his good natured disposition had a lot to do with making what must have been a big transition for him.  There were a lot of outstanding things about this horse and his good mind was definitely one of them.

Slew was big, really big.  He stood a solid 16.3 and we estimated he weighed over 1400 pounds after he’d been here a few months.  He had foot, bone, and muscle like we rarely see on Thoroughbreds anymore.  He wore a #3 saddle horse shoe.  Everything about him says power.

He’s also gorgeous.  Everyone who sees him comments on how well-put together he is and how you don’t realize how huge he is until you stand right next to him.  Nothing was out of proportion.

Slew was, with limited foals, a successful Thoroughbred racehorse sire.  He is listed by Bloodhorse magazine as 2015’s number #1 sire standing in Montana.  His foals have lifetime earnings over $500,000.

Obviously, we never have, in 3 generations of breeding horses, raised Thoroughbred racehorses.  So why bring a 16.3 Thoroughbred stallion into a barrel horse program?

Simple.  A good horse is a good horse.  And Slew was a really good horse.  He was an athlete with outstanding conformation.  His shoulder is as good as you’ll ever see – this trait alone made him invaluable to our breeding program. 

It’s hard not to love a really good Thoroughbred.  Good Thoroughbreds have brought important qualities to the Quarter Horse breed since the beginning.  Slew made those kind of contributions to our program. His daughters our produce themselves bred to our barrel horse stallions.

Golden Slew’s pedigree is remarkable from many angles.  Just his sire and his dam together won over $1.7 million on the track. (Back when that was real money.)  His sire’s foals have won over $84.5 million.  Seattle Slew’s stud fees ranged from $800K in his prime to $300K in his later 20’s when his health concerns represented a breeding risk.  Those kind of numbers are just hard to comprehend when you have been in the QH and Paint business but we are excited to bring the blood of that class of horse to eastern Montana and to our program.

While of course Seattle Slew is famous for having won the classic distance Triple Crown races, his breeding included solid sprinter credentials and his first stakes win was in a sprint.  He also became a noted sprint sire himself.   Golden Slew has a dosage profile of:  DP = 13-1-12-2-0 (28) DI = 2.50   CD = 0.89 which indicates a solid pedigree of short speed in addition to ability at longer distances.

Check out his complete catalog style pedigree here.  This link is to a pdf file which should open in a new window or a new tab.

Golden Slew catalog style pedigree 5-4-2014

Slew’s TB foals have won over a half million dollars in earnings.  Click on the link below to open a sire record record is here:

Golden-Slew-sire-report-5-25-2015

And here is his pedigree. Yes, he is one of the last own sons of Seattle Slew.

Photos of Golden Slew offspring – Grandsons and Granddaughters of Seattle Slew