Easy Goer is a thoroughbred racehorse, famous for conquering the champion Sunday Silence in the 1989 Belmont Stakes by 8 lengths. The victory deprived Sunday Silence of the Triple Crown. Easy Goer was a son of Alydar and was also the Eclipse Award winner for champion 2-year old in 1988. Template:Horceracing-stub The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer. ... Sunday Silence (1986-2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse. ... The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious horse race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ... The Triple Crown is a term sometimes used to describe the three-tiered crown or tiara formerly used by popes. ... Alydar, a chestnut colt born at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 23, 1975 – died at Calumet Farm on November 15, 1990, was an American thoroughbred race horse who was most famous for finishing a close second to Affirmed in all three races of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred...
EasyGoer lost his first race, then rattled off a skein of wins in some of the most prestigious 2-year-old stakes in the country: the Champagne, the Futurity, the Sanford.
EasyGoer stayed in New York, going to Saratoga to beat older horses in the Whitney Handicap as a prep for the Travers Stakes, his last race against 3-year-olds, which he also won.
EasyGoer had all the advantages: a perfect pedigree, wonderful conformation (except for questionable knees) and the prized stall at Claiborne Farm.
EasyGoer's second season was marked by his rivalry with Sunday Silence who defeated him in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.
EasyGoer'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.
EasyGoer was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1997.
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