Stallion Slewacide Euthanized

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Twenty-year-old Slewacide, perennial leading sire in Oklahoma, was euthanized on Sept. 2 due to infirmities of old age, according to officials at Lazy E Ranch near Guthrie, Okla., where the syndicated stallion stood for the last 10 breeding seasons.

The son of Seattle Slew, out of the Buckpasser mare Evasive, finished third in his lone race track attempt, but came into his own in the breeding shed. He has sired 34 stakes winners from his 15 crops of racing age, including 2000 stakes winners Mr. Ross and Mink. Mr. Ross won the Fifth Season Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park on April 12. Slewacide stood his final season at Lazy E for a stud fee of $3,000.

Slewacide's most successful runners were the grade I-winning Slew of Damascus and Clever Trevor. Slew of Damascus earned $1,420,350 and won the 1994 Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I). Arlington Classic (gr. I) winner Clever Trevor, who earned $1,388,841, was the first Oklahoma-bred millionaire and first to run in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I), finishing 13th behind Sunday Silence in 1989.

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