Easy Goer,
© Kathryn Dudek/Photo News
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Easy Goer
Chestnut colt foaled in 1986.
By Alydar-Relaxing, by Buckpasser
Breeder:
Ogden Phipps
Owner:
Ogden Phipps
Trainer:
Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III
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RACE RECORD
| YEAR |
AGE | STARTS |
1ST | 2ND |
3RD | EARNED |
| 1988 | 2 |
6 | 4 |
2 | 0 | $697,500 |
| 1989 | 3 |
11 | 8 |
3 | 0 | $3,837,150 |
| 1990 | 4 |
3 | 2 |
0 | 1 | $339,120 |
| TOTALS: |
20 | 14 |
5 | 1 | $4,873,770 |
Ogden Phipps' homebred Easy Goer had an impressive pedigree. He was sired
by
Triple Crown runner-up Alydar out of the champion mare Relaxing by Horse
of
the Year Buckpasser. Easy Goer was trained by Shug McGaughey.After winning a maiden race at Saratoga in his second start, Easy Goer
went on
to victories in the Cowdin and Champagne. He was named Champion
2-year-old of
1988.
Easy Goer winning the Belmont Stakes,
© Bob Coglianese
Easy Goer won his first three races at 3 and in the Gotham narrowly missed
breaking Dr. Fager's world record for the mile. Easy Goer's second season
was
marked by his rivalry with Sunday Silence who defeated him in the Kentucky
Derby and the Preakness. Easy Goer then came back in the Belmont Stakes
to
defeat Sunday Silence by eight lengths in 2 minutes 26 seconds, a time
second
only to Secretariat's record of 2:24.
Easy Goer's 3-year-old season also included victories in the Travers and
in
the Whitney, Woodward, and Jockey Club Gold Cup where he defeated older
horses.
At 4 Easy Goer won the Gold Stage Stakes and the Suburban Handicap before
a
leg injury ended his racing career. Easy Goer was inducted in the Hall of
Fame in 1997.
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