30-07-2025
Maritime Traveler, Son Of Secretariat, Passes At Age 35
Maritime Traveler, Son Of Secretariat, Passes At Age 35 originally appeared on Paulick Report.
Maritime Traveler, believed to have been the last living horse sired by legendary 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, has died at the age of 35, reports the Ocala Gazette. Retired to stud for the 1974 breeding season, Secretariat stood at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky until his death in 1989 at 19 from laminitis. In that time, he sired 663 foals including Maritime Traveler, who was born in 1990 from the last on May 15, 1990, in Ontario, Maritime Traveler was produced from the Northern Dancer mare Oceana, Maritime Traveler was foaled at the famed Windfields Farm. A commercial breeding operation founded by E.P. Taylor in 1950, Windfields was the birthplace of many breed-shaping names in racing. Among the most notable were Nearctic, Nijinsky, and Vice Regent as well as Maritime Traveler's maternal grandsire, Northern Dancer, the first-ever Canadian Thoroughbred to win the Kentucky Derby.
Consigned to the 1991 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Maritime Traveler's breeding did much to recommend him. He was purchased by Bridlewood founder Arthur Appleton for a modest $55, the high hopes that ferry any new runner to the track, Maritime Traveler did not quite live up to the heights of his father. Racing exclusively at Woodbine, the chestnut made five attempts in maiden special weight company for trainer Emile Allain. His best effort came at two when he took fourth. The decision to suspend his racing career was made shortly of selling as so many do, Appleton brought Maritime Traveler home to Ocala, where he was enlisted as a teaser for the breeding program. It was there that the horse's stamina and obliging disposition would serve him well in years to come.
'We retired Maritime Traveler as a teaser when he was 28,' George Isaacs, Bridlewood Farm's stallion manager, told the Ocala Gazette. 'Up until his death, he lived in a paddock that backs up to 100 acres of forest. He had a good life here at Bridlewood Farm. It was our honor to have him as a special connection to the great Secretariat.'Read more at the Ocala story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.
