REDDICK, FLA. — Billy Turner, who trained Seattle Slew to a Triple Crown sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1977, has died. He was 81.
Turner died Friday at his home in Reddick where he had been in hospice care after battling prostate cancer for two years, according to a statement from his wife, Pat.
Seattle Slew became horse racing’s 10th Triple Crown winner and the first to go undefeated during his 3-year-old season. The colt was named Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male in 1977.
“There was no relief in winning the first leg, or the second.