Easy Goer
| Easy Goer | |
|---|---|
Easy Goer winning the 1989 Gotham Stakes. | |
| Sire | Alydar |
| Grandsire | Raise a Native |
| Dam | Relaxing |
| Damsire | Buckpasser |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | Mar. 21, 1986 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Ogden Phipps |
| Owner | Ogden Phipps |
| Trainer | Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III |
| Record | 20: 14-5-1 |
| Earnings | $4,873,770 |
| Major wins | |
| Champagne Stakes (1988) Cowdin Stakes (1988) Gotham Stakes (1989) Swale Stakes (1989) Travers Stakes (1989) Jockey Club Gold Cup (1989) Wood Memorial Stakes (1989) Whitney Handicap (1989) Woodward Stakes (1989) Suburban Handicap (1990) Triple Crown race wins: Belmont Stakes (1989) | |
| Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1988) | |
| Honours | |
| United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee (1997) #34 – Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Easy Goer Stakes at Belmont Park Timeform rating: 137 | |
Easy Goer (March 21, 1986 – May 12, 1994) was an American Champion American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse known for earning American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors in 1988, and defeating 1989 American Horse of the Year Sunday Silence by eight lengths while running the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind only Secretariat. Both horses were later voted into the American Hall of Fame. He is also known for running the fastest mile on dirt by any three-year-old in history in the Gotham Stakes with a time of 1:32+2⁄5, and the only horse in racing history to win the Belmont, Whitney, Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup, among others.
In the Blood-Horse List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Easy Goer is ranked #34.
He won 14 of his 20 races, including nine Grade I wins at distances of seven furlongs, eight furlongs, nine furlongs, ten furlongs and twelve furlongs, and placed second five times. His Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day considers Easy Goer to be the best horse he ever rode, and the best horse his Hall of Fame Shug McGaughey trainer ever trained.