Re: RC: Re: ridecamp-d Digest V00 #220

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

What a fluke! So, Michelle, we got "slew footed" from a handwriting
mistake? Or was that term already in use before this horse ever ran?
Bette

MBlanchrd@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 02/09/2000 10:43:54 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:
> 
> << said that Seattle Slew (I might be spelling it wrong but you
>  know who I mean) had a terrible toeing out which gave him a substantial
>  paddle, hence his name. Didn't seem to stop him from being one of the >>
> 
> I'm not flaming, here, please understand. But Seattle Slew was NOT named
> because of a supposed defect. He was originally supposed to be named Seattle
> SLIM, and when the owners wrote that in on the request, the handwriting was
> so poor that the Jockey Club read it as "Slew".
> Michelle Blanchard
> MBlanchrd@aol.com
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