lovesbriardi, my 4 daughters, and I, visited Claiborne Farm in 1981 twice. No words can describe how gorgeous/beautiful Secretariat was. He had a personality to match. It's true, he was a "ham" and loved attention.
I wonder if they had a had a cure for laminitis when he had it and they had to put him down for it, could he have been the greatest thing to ever live?. The dad of healed him to save his life he would have read more females in his female kids did more than his sons
@@sergeantmasson3669 Sergeant Mason are you a bigger Secretariat lovers me and I'm asking this question? I seen two beautiful horses and one was owned by my brother the horse's name was jet charger Junior and never touch the racetrack itself or you know we raced them you know against people in our local town and never hit a racetrack, and he had a rich copper coat and his stockings was down by his ankle bone and he also had a white streak down his muzzle
I was 12 yrs old when I witnessed this phenomenon. I remember my grandfather telling me to come in the TV room and watch the Belmont Stakes. He told me to sit down and watch history. Telling me you’re never going to see another horse like this in your life time. I’m 60 yrs old now, my grandfather was right. 🙏
The sight of Secretsriat tearing around his paddock at top speed, running just for the sheer joy of it, with that whiney as if to say, "Wheeeee! Look ma, I'm flying!" Gives me chills to watch him.
The modern day Pegasus. There was not a horse living or dead that could have stayed within 10 lengths of Secretariat at the Belmont, and that's probably being overly generous to the other horses. Not even the great Man O War.
At the end of Bob's report, Secretariat is running across and around the field - because he can, because he wants to, because it gives him great joy. For him it was never work - it was play. How could ANY horse defeat him unless he was sick? He ran out of exuberance, out of passion for running. Nobody needed to whip him to make him run. Sham couldn't win because he had to be persuaded to run with pain. Secretariat needed no such persuasion. He had a running spirit. I'd like to think that his spirit has now joined the Ghost Riders of the Sky, teaching them what it means to REALLY run.
There are so many accolades and plaudits which have been given to this amazing animal over the years, even decades, which somehow seem shallow from overuse. Who can forget that astounding, record breaking win in the 1973 Belmont Stakes or the way he simply overhauled and demolished his competitors in the "Preakness" of the same year ? His times winning times have yet to be equalled let alone beaten..! Many of us, myself included, may never see his ilk again, but at least we lived in the age of true sporting immortality combined with humility. To my mind there is only one word needed to describe this legend . It is to simply say that he was " SECRETARIAT " ! He stands alone at the pinnacle, in the annals of horse racing history.
I missed being at the Belmont,I unfortunately went to a Met game with my friends. I did see him in person when he beat Tentam in the Man O War on turf. Magnificent specimen. He would've set so many records had he run as a 4 yr old. RIP "Big Red". No one has even come close to beating your Triple Crown race times in 48 years, while way over a million horses were sired since.
“Big Red” is THE GREATEST horse/equine machine there has ever been in history. Secretariat is also surely the best name a horse has ever had, it sounds so regal and magnificent! Watching him run around his paddock or curiously observing his fans, brings tears to my eyes 😢😢😢.
The most spectacular creature I have ever seen ❣️🐎 He was so majestic and unbelievably real. His presence was captivating. He was a magnificent specimen of quality, vigor, and grace❣️ I can never watch his performances without crying, because of his will to give his all. Such strength, I've never seen before. Always a gentleman, letting the other horses have right of way, but couldn't contain his mighty power as he whirled past them, to triumph and win the race. Truly the most magnificent, of them all‼️ RIP BIG RED❣️❣️❣️
LaDonna Whitcomb, 1981, during a vacation trip to FL with my 4 daughters, we visited Claiborne Farm to see Secretariat. Not only was he beautiful/gorgeous, but it was also instantly obvious that he loved attention and he really was a "ham" and loved being photographed. He really liked my daughters but me not so much. Two weeks later, we visited again while returning home. Secretariat perked right up, and the keeper said that Secretariat always remembers everybody. The keeper was impressed and gave each daughter an aluminum horseshoe that Secretariat had worn at one time. All I got was a brief head-bump, but I took many photographs. Seeing him live -in-person was breath taking, to say the least. My daughters still have those same aluminum horseshoes today.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Oh, my‼️I cannot imagine the feeling I would have while just seeing this perfect Wonder Horse‼️🐴 I remember seeing your video of Secretariat. What a treasured memory for you and yours. I'm jealous, but thanking you for sharing your visit with all of us ‼️And thank you for replying to my comment‼️ This is such a great moment, to share feelings, about an incredible animal. RIP Secretariat 🐴
@@ladonnawhitcomb4665 I never did a video of Secretariat. We only did photographs. No such thing as hand-held video cameras in the early 80's. Only small movie cameras that used film that ha to be processed. Anyway, there aren't enough words to describe the magnificence of Secretariat live in-person. I've been around horses since birth and I've never seen a more near perfect horse in my life than he was.
@@sergeantmasson3669 I'm sorry, I'm so used to saying video 🙄😄 I was watching a TV channel that showed films of Secretariat and there was a part where a man and his daughters had visited the farm where Secretariat had retired to. They wanted to see him and were allowed to look at him as he grazed and ran around. Then, your girls had their picture made with him. I guess I was wrong, in thinking that you were the one that told your story. 🤭
He broke records that he still holds almost 50 years later, he stalked the field and won, he did a last to first blast and won, he beat champion older horses and he dished out one of the worst beat downs in horse racing history.
He was perfection, in confirmation he larger in per portion. In one race at a mile and one half in length he ran each 1/4 mile faster than the previous thus turning it into a one and one half mile sprint in record time. I was lucky enough to have witnessed this in my lifetime.
People keep getting that mixed up. The race where he ran each quarter faster than the previous was the Derby and it’s 1 1/4 miles. The Belmont is 1.5 miles and he slowed down each quarter after the 2nd.
Rick Bateman is correct that it was the Kentucky Derby at 1 1/4 miles in which Secretariat ran each quarter faster than the preceding. In the Belmont he was (mostly) slowing down as the race progressed, albeit much more gradually than the other horses, hence him continuing to widen his lead. If you listen to Chick Anderson's Belmont call, the first 6 furlongs (first 6/8 of a mile, so the first half of the 1 1/2 mile Belmont) were run in 1:09 4/5, which is sprinting speed. If he had run the second half of the Belmont in that same time, his final time would have been 2:19 3/5 --more than 4 seconds faster than the still-standing 2:24 flat world dirt track record he set that day.
@@marysueeasteregg Secretariat's Belmont furlong split times were: 12.2, 11.4, 11.4, 11.2, 12.0, 11.6, 12.2, 12.2, 12.0, 12.8, 12.2, 12.8. After that blazing first 6 furlongs, he ran the 9th in 12 flat, and the 11th in 12.2. His 1-1/4 time of 1:59 was faster than his Derby. His Derby arguably might have been even more amazing. His last 3 quarters were 23.8, 23.4, 23.0. And he did that having to go outside around the pack. He ran the last half mile of the Derby almost as fast as the first half mile of the Belmont (46.2 vs.46.4). We will never know how fast he might have run another quarter if that were a 1.5 mile race. Anything faster than 24.6 would've bested his Belmont time.
What are the chances of ever seeing another horse do what Secretariat did in the 3 most sought after races in the Western Hemisphere, and and some may say in the world? Over a million horses have been born in North America alone since Secretariat won the triple crown and not one has even been able to match just one of the times he set in those 3 races, truly the best!!!
I don't disagree with you there everytime I watch the Belmont I get a tear in my eye every time big red was just on phenomenal horse to me there's only one that can Grace the Earth and he was it
I think that magnificent horse had a mind of it own. The video seemed to have him turning right most of the time. Like he was saying enough with this going left all the time. Still with the records nearly 50 years on. Amazing
You could argue it was human's imperfections being the only reason he wasn't undefeated. An incredible creature indeed. There will never be another like him.
Starting at 3:51 - The purity, the joy of the excitement of the infield crowd at the Preakness - just doesn't seem like we have that in anything today.
I will always believe he missed racing. I sometimes wish we had taken up a national collection to pay owners to let him run longer...and pay for his insurance, too. I think people would have gladly contributed. I know I would have. I remember Penny Chenery saying when he was a 2 yo that "He's too pretty to be any good." Secretariat had the last word on that. :)
Lost cause. *His syndication was announced February 27, 1973, before he made his first start at the age of 3.* The terms of the syndication dictated that he be retired in November 1973, with Penny Tweedy retaining control of his racing career through that period. Few people outside serious racing fans had ever heard of Secretariat in Jan/Feb of 1973 (he had been Horse of the Year at 2 yrs old, an almost unprecedented honor), and he certainly was not a national hero at the point when Penny needed the tax money, her father Christopher Chenery having died in early January 1973. A story about Secretariat I am fond of, apropos your belief he missed racing...his paddock at Claiborne Farm was adjacent to those of two other stallions. One horse he ignored, but he struck up a friendship of sorts with Spectacular Bid and the two would race each other along the fence. Bid was also an all-time great, ranked by Blood-Horse 10th among American-raced horses of the 20th century. I and some others rank him even higher; IMO, Bid was and is the second best U.S. racehorse after Secretariat of my 64 years. I like to think Secretariat and Spectacular Bid recognized fellow greatness. : )
Greatest horse to ever race. At each 1/16 pole, most horses post a slower time. Not Secretariat, his times were faster than the previous 1/16 pole. That’s how he won by so any lengths.
That’s called the princequillo gene. Zenyatta has it too. American pharaoh and Seattle slew also. It’s a gene from princequillo which causes exceptionally large hearts and it’s most effective when passed thru the dam lines.
I ❤ SECRETARIAT Secretariat Will Always Be The Greatest Race Horse Of All Time , Once In A Life Time Super Horse , The King Of The Triple Crown Winners & Secretariat Will Always Be The Beloved Champion 🥇 ❤ Gabby Gustafsson
Man would have loved to have seen what he could do at 4...he'd have destroyed his records in fine style. The stadium would have gone form cheering to just standing in straight shock and aw.
Wish this was an hour long. My favorite story is when the officials were doing what do and a lady said "They are treating him like he's just another horse".
She was very correct...a 4 year old is much stronger. Greats like Dr. Fager and Spectacular Bid for just two examples were did their most impressive running as 4 year olds.
I love to watch horse on tv I love horses they are loveable; caring; warmth; I detest Animals cruelty; Animals Have rights Also ; I am watching it. 0ctober 2024?😢😢😢😢
I remember that day he was like a super hero i remember that day we going crazy because secretary had won 🏆 the triple crown in 1973 it was like American bit the Russian 1980 the hokey team
The other day, I found this interview of Seth Hancock from a couple/three years ago...he seems to be a good guy...as expected. ua-cam.com/video/3xpnxm2d7pg/v-deo.html
Secretariat is a real case for could have would have should have or racing in his fourth year and maybe fifth why could he have not raced in his fourth year? Penny Chenery was probably right. Man usually reach their Peak strength in their mid-30s Secretariat probably would have picked his fourth or fifth year but now we'll never know would have been interesting to see
He just wanted to run....as one can see in his running like that at Claiborn Farms....bet as a stronger 4 year old he would have just been ridiculously dominant and more records made.
There were good horses, great horses, champion horses, super horses...and then there was Secretariat. He stood alone.
It's 2022 and all his Triple Crown records still stand. He STILL stands alone. You are so right!
I just did the math. Those records have now stood for 49 years. And counting.
50 years this year😊
Your absolutely right. He stood alone. That's historical moment when the racing announcer said He's all alone. How true that was
He sure was a beautiful horse and he just had a way to run in front of the rest of them . 💪
All these years later he still makes me cry.
me too
lovesbriardi, my 4 daughters, and I, visited Claiborne Farm in 1981 twice. No words can describe how gorgeous/beautiful Secretariat was. He had a personality to match. It's true, he was a "ham" and loved attention.
I wonder if they had a had a cure for laminitis when he had it and they had to put him down for it, could he have been the greatest thing to ever live?. The dad of healed him to save his life he would have read more females in his female kids did more than his sons
@@sergeantmasson3669 Sergeant Mason are you a bigger Secretariat lovers me and I'm asking this question? I seen two beautiful horses and one was owned by my brother the horse's name was jet charger Junior and never touch the racetrack itself or you know we raced them you know against people in our local town and never hit a racetrack, and he had a rich copper coat and his stockings was down by his ankle bone and he also had a white streak down his muzzle
@@samuelwilliams6313 Equine laminitis is not curable, even today.
I was 12 yrs old when I witnessed this phenomenon. I remember my grandfather telling me to come in the TV room and watch the Belmont Stakes. He told me to sit down and watch history. Telling me you’re never going to see another horse like this in your life time. I’m 60 yrs old now, my grandfather was right. 🙏
I know I was also 12. And i remember watching the belmont. And I remember thinking. Where are the other horses. Still to this day
I was 10 years old and my mother made sure I watched th fentire triple crown that year ... thank you Mom!!!
What a special memory to have!
I myself was 12 when he ran the Belmont and did what he did, I didn't realize until later the magnitude and greatness of that race until I was older.
10 and rooted for him in all three
Man, watching that horse just having a ball running in the pasture at the end is so cool.
To this day I still get teary-eyed watching Big Red's run for the triple crown. Magnificent horse.
The greatest athlete of all time.
Secretariat knew he was great….the way he looked/reacted to crowds….he was a show off….his records still stand! Miss ya BIG RED!
The greatest athlete of all time
The sight of Secretsriat tearing around his paddock at top speed, running just for the sheer joy of it, with that whiney as if to say, "Wheeeee! Look ma, I'm flying!" Gives me chills to watch him.
Magical, love his little stutter take off 6:00. He was truly a gift to this world.
Me too
Thank you GOD for loaning us your horse, we called him Secretariat
So sweetly said. I love him still and I miss him. He came along at the perfect time when America needed him.💙❤
@@dellagibson6701 we could sure use him now...
@@PD-hv4js You're so right Patrick.
The modern day Pegasus. There was not a horse living or dead that could have stayed within 10 lengths of Secretariat at the Belmont, and that's probably being overly generous to the other horses. Not even the great Man O War.
Don't know if the horse was doped as american horse racing is bent, more so back then.
The greatest racehorse ever. And a great athlete. Others can TRY to make an argument. But, there is no comparison.
I was 14 the year of the Belmont. He is still my hero. And I still love and miss him.
What a beautiful horse Secretariat was. He was born to run!. The greatest racehorse ever!
Just supernatural. God breathed life into that horse.
That big, strapping, magnificent creature brings a tear to my eye. Praise God!
What a gift! I am so glad i saw him run when i was a little girl!
Happy Anniversary secretariat. Happy Birthday Eddie Sweat. For never be forgotten ❤❤
I cry every time I watch the Belmont!
Really I cry every time I see him in pictures and video.....
And fifty (50) years later, his records still stand!
At the end of Bob's report, Secretariat is running across and around the field - because he can, because he wants to, because it gives him great joy. For him it was never work - it was play. How could ANY horse defeat him unless he was sick? He ran out of exuberance, out of passion for running. Nobody needed to whip him to make him run. Sham couldn't win because he had to be persuaded to run with pain. Secretariat needed no such persuasion. He had a running spirit. I'd like to think that his spirit has now joined the Ghost Riders of the Sky, teaching them what it means to REALLY run.
The photo of him, which begins & ends this lovely piece, is truly breathtaking. Secretariat lives in our hearts forever ❤
I never saw this Secretariat clip on UA-cam, so happy to watch perfection...
There are so many accolades and plaudits which have been given to this amazing animal over the years, even decades, which somehow seem shallow from overuse. Who can forget that astounding, record breaking win in the 1973 Belmont Stakes or the way he simply overhauled and demolished his competitors in the "Preakness" of the same year ?
His times winning times have yet to be equalled let alone beaten..!
Many of us, myself included, may never see his ilk again, but at least we lived in the age of true sporting immortality combined with humility.
To my mind there is only one word needed to describe this legend . It is to simply say that he was " SECRETARIAT " !
He stands alone at the pinnacle, in the annals of horse racing history.
Secretariat was a once ever horse, I feel so lucky to have been here for that once!!
Thankyou Secretariat for showing us perfection!!!!!!
I missed being at the Belmont,I unfortunately went to a Met game with my friends. I did see him in person when he beat Tentam in the Man O War on turf. Magnificent specimen. He would've set so many records had he run as a 4 yr old. RIP "Big Red". No one has even come close to beating your Triple Crown race times in 48 years, while way over a million horses were sired since.
“Big Red” is THE GREATEST horse/equine machine there has ever been in history.
Secretariat is also surely the best name a horse has ever had, it sounds so regal and magnificent!
Watching him run around his paddock or curiously observing his fans, brings tears to my eyes 😢😢😢.
Secretariat was the greatest athlete that ever graced God's ground.
What a big beautiful boy. I love him.
The most spectacular creature I have ever seen ❣️🐎 He was so majestic and unbelievably real. His presence was captivating. He was a magnificent specimen of quality, vigor, and grace❣️ I can never watch his performances without crying, because of his will to give his all. Such strength, I've never seen before. Always a gentleman, letting the other horses have right of way, but couldn't contain his mighty power as he whirled past them, to triumph and win the race. Truly the most magnificent, of them all‼️ RIP BIG RED❣️❣️❣️
LaDonna Whitcomb, 1981, during a vacation trip to FL with my 4 daughters, we visited Claiborne Farm to see Secretariat. Not only was he beautiful/gorgeous, but it was also instantly obvious that he loved attention and he really was a "ham" and loved being photographed. He really liked my daughters but me not so much. Two weeks later, we visited again while returning home. Secretariat perked right up, and the keeper said that Secretariat always remembers everybody. The keeper was impressed and gave each daughter an aluminum horseshoe that Secretariat had worn at one time. All I got was a brief head-bump, but I took many photographs. Seeing him live -in-person was breath taking, to say the least. My daughters still have those same aluminum horseshoes today.
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Oh, my‼️I cannot imagine the feeling I would have while just seeing this perfect Wonder Horse‼️🐴 I remember seeing your video of Secretariat. What a treasured memory for you and yours. I'm jealous, but thanking you for sharing your visit with all of us ‼️And thank you for replying to my comment‼️ This is such a great moment, to share feelings, about an incredible animal. RIP Secretariat 🐴
@@ladonnawhitcomb4665 I never did a video of Secretariat. We only did photographs. No such thing as hand-held video cameras in the early 80's. Only small movie cameras that used film that ha to be processed. Anyway, there aren't enough words to describe the magnificence of Secretariat live in-person. I've been around horses since birth and I've never seen a more near perfect horse in my life than he was.
@@sergeantmasson3669
I'm sorry, I'm so used to saying video 🙄😄 I was watching a TV channel that showed films of Secretariat and there was a part where a man and his daughters had visited the farm where Secretariat had retired to. They wanted to see him and were allowed to look at him as he grazed and ran around. Then, your girls had their picture made with him. I guess I was wrong, in thinking that you were the one that told your story. 🤭
AMEN!!!!
it is said Secretariat liked to come from behind so he could wink at all the horses as he went by them
That’s cute; I like it!
Happy Anniversary Secretariat. Beautiful BIG RED. Forever and ever will be remembered. 🎉🎉
Look at him Go!!! He's Truly Beautiful, Secretariat is God's Horse ❤️ Thank you God
Every time I see him move and run like the wind, my eyes tear up. He will always be perfection no matter how old he gets.
I never get tired of watching him 👏🙏🏻💕
Me too
I was 11 yrs old when Secretariat ran! I still get excited when I watch reruns!
Seeing him running free...RIP, Red...
"Stallions, they run from within,, like children at play."
Watch the last two minutes. Full of Beauty.
"We didn't make Secretariat. Secretariat made us."...Charlie Davis
He broke records that he still holds almost 50 years later, he stalked the field and won, he did a last to first blast and won, he beat champion older horses and he dished out one of the worst beat downs in horse racing history.
God I wish I could have at least visited him while he was still around.
Miracle to Witness This Wonderful Gift from The Heavenly Father.
He was perfection, in confirmation he larger in per portion. In one race at a mile and one half in length he ran each 1/4 mile faster than the previous thus turning it into a one and one half mile sprint in record time. I was lucky enough to have witnessed this in my lifetime.
And that’s what he wanted to do !
People keep getting that mixed up. The race where he ran each quarter faster than the previous was the Derby and it’s 1 1/4 miles. The Belmont is 1.5 miles and he slowed down each quarter after the 2nd.
Rick Bateman is correct that it was the Kentucky Derby at 1 1/4 miles in which Secretariat ran each quarter faster than the preceding. In the Belmont he was (mostly) slowing down as the race progressed, albeit much more gradually than the other horses, hence him continuing to widen his lead. If you listen to Chick Anderson's Belmont call, the first 6 furlongs (first 6/8 of a mile, so the first half of the 1 1/2 mile Belmont) were run in 1:09 4/5, which is sprinting speed. If he had run the second half of the Belmont in that same time, his final time would have been 2:19 3/5 --more than 4 seconds faster than the still-standing 2:24 flat world dirt track record he set that day.
@@marysueeasteregg Secretariat's Belmont furlong split times were: 12.2, 11.4, 11.4, 11.2, 12.0, 11.6, 12.2, 12.2, 12.0, 12.8, 12.2, 12.8. After that blazing first 6 furlongs, he ran the 9th in 12 flat, and the 11th in 12.2. His 1-1/4 time of 1:59 was faster than his Derby.
His Derby arguably might have been even more amazing. His last 3 quarters were 23.8, 23.4, 23.0. And he did that having to go outside around the pack. He ran the last half mile of the Derby almost as fast as the first half mile of the Belmont (46.2 vs.46.4). We will never know how fast he might have run another quarter if that were a 1.5 mile race. Anything faster than 24.6 would've bested his Belmont time.
What are the chances of ever seeing another horse do what Secretariat did in the 3 most sought after races in the Western Hemisphere, and and some may say in the world? Over a million horses have been born in North America alone since Secretariat won the triple crown and not one has even been able to match just one of the times he set in those 3 races, truly the best!!!
I was lucky to see him run at Arlington Park after he won the Triple Crown. He won by a mile.
Secretariat and Mozart at the end. Couldn’t be more perfect!
No other like him. I can't stop watching him.
His heart was so pure
Big Red one of the greatest athletes of all time hands down
According to Sports Illustrated, he was the Best Athlete of the 20th Century.
He was the best athlete of all time
I don't disagree with you there everytime I watch the Belmont I get a tear in my eye every time big red was just on phenomenal horse to me there's only one that can Grace the Earth and he was it
I think that magnificent horse had a mind of it own. The video seemed to have him turning right most of the time. Like he was saying enough with this going left all the time. Still with the records nearly 50 years on. Amazing
At 6:08 he was showing off. What an amazing creature he was, the most perfect creature that was ever on this planet, including humans.
You could argue it was human's imperfections being the only reason he wasn't undefeated. An incredible creature indeed. There will never be another like him.
The GREATEST ATHELETE !
Absolutely Magnificent Secretariat the best race horse Ever and I Never Ever Forget you❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Starting at 3:51 - The purity, the joy of the excitement of the infield crowd at the Preakness - just doesn't seem like we have that in anything today.
I will always believe he missed racing. I sometimes wish we had taken up a national collection to pay owners to let him run longer...and pay for his insurance, too. I think people would have gladly contributed. I know I would have. I remember Penny Chenery saying when he was a 2 yo that "He's too pretty to be any good." Secretariat had the last word on that. :)
Lost cause. *His syndication was announced February 27, 1973, before he made his first start at the age of 3.* The terms of the syndication dictated that he be retired in November 1973, with Penny Tweedy retaining control of his racing career through that period. Few people outside serious racing fans had ever heard of Secretariat in Jan/Feb of 1973 (he had been Horse of the Year at 2 yrs old, an almost unprecedented honor), and he certainly was not a national hero at the point when Penny needed the tax money, her father Christopher Chenery having died in early January 1973.
A story about Secretariat I am fond of, apropos your belief he missed racing...his paddock at Claiborne Farm was adjacent to those of two other stallions. One horse he ignored, but he struck up a friendship of sorts with Spectacular Bid and the two would race each other along the fence. Bid was also an all-time great, ranked by Blood-Horse 10th among American-raced horses of the 20th century. I and some others rank him even higher; IMO, Bid was and is the second best U.S. racehorse after Secretariat of my 64 years. I like to think Secretariat and Spectacular Bid recognized fellow greatness. : )
Such a beautiful horse the greatest
If secretariat doesn't move you you cant be moved . He is the undisputed GOAT OF HORSES
Secretariat/Zenyatta
The king and queen !!!
And he still does! 50 years later!!!!
The most near perfect horse that ever lived plus he was highly intelligent. A huge attention hound as well.
Greatest horse to ever race. At each 1/16 pole, most horses post a slower time. Not Secretariat, his times were faster than the previous 1/16 pole. That’s how he won by so any lengths.
That’s called the princequillo gene. Zenyatta has it too. American pharaoh and Seattle slew also. It’s a gene from princequillo which causes exceptionally large hearts and it’s most effective when passed thru the dam lines.
An incorrect comment.
He was Beethoven's way of finishing his 10th Symphony (w/Pegasus for the Assist).
Amo Secretariat... Brazil o AMA!
I ❤ SECRETARIAT
Secretariat Will Always Be The Greatest Race Horse Of All Time , Once In A Life Time Super Horse , The King Of The Triple Crown Winners & Secretariat Will Always Be The Beloved Champion 🥇
❤ Gabby Gustafsson
Sham was also a great horse but then there was Secretariat, the G.O.A.T.
Beyond great, a true warrior. 2nd only to Gods chariot.
My horse's sirs was Tim Tam. Riding him was like riding a hurricane.
Oh, I just had to watch this again. What a magnificent, exquisite athlete.
Did you see that take off lord have mercy !!!!
Man would have loved to have seen what he could do at 4...he'd have destroyed his records in fine style. The stadium would have gone form cheering to just standing in straight shock and aw.
Facts
I loved that horse.
Secretariat record won't be broken in the Belmont.
Or the Kentucky Derby or Preakness
What does a person do with the greatest racehorse that ever lived? Get up on him and hold on for the best ride of your life.
The heart and spirit as well love joy and well and grace ❤️
Tear it up Secretariat!!!
Kinda like Ali being deprived of those years when he couldn't fight, what we might have seen from these two tremendous machines!!!
The amazing aspect is that Ron Turcotte never used the whip. All Turcotte had to do was talk to him and show him the whip but never used it even once.
You don’t believe in god then don’t watch this film because you’ll see god in one of his creatures perfection at it’s finest
You're supposed to capitalize the word God.
💯
all I can say, is open the gate and let that stallion run...
What a horse!🤦♀️💖💖💖
And he's looking at the camera all through that last slo-mo run...
Wish this was an hour long. My favorite story is when the officials were doing what do and a lady said "They are treating him like he's just another horse".
Let's also give kudos to the great Chick Anderson who called all three races, but unfortunately passed away very young.
Bestest hoss that ever lived!
5:48 - Incredibly inspiring
One point of contention: he was WAY prettier than Ali!
🏆 *BIG RED* 🥇
There isn’t a close second!!!
Penny may have been right.
Just imagine him as a more mature specimen as a 4 year old..
The things he might have accomplished
She was very correct...a 4 year old is much stronger. Greats like Dr. Fager and Spectacular Bid for just two examples were did their most impressive running as 4 year olds.
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He is an was the greatest sports figure that ever lived .
I remember that day he was like a super hero i remember that day we going crazy because secretary had won 🏆 the triple crown in 1973 it was like American bit the Russian 1980 the hokey team
God horse the best ever
Horses never doubt their gender. No True Champion ever did.
I bet Seth Hancock is a cool dude
The other day, I found this interview of Seth Hancock from a couple/three years ago...he seems to be a good guy...as expected. ua-cam.com/video/3xpnxm2d7pg/v-deo.html
He had to retire because nobody would bet against him. . R.I.P RED
Meadow farm was the only racing operation where the Kentucky Derby & Belmont stakes winner was the second best runner.
Secretariat is a real case for could have would have should have or racing in his fourth year and maybe fifth why could he have not raced in his fourth year? Penny Chenery was probably right. Man usually reach their Peak strength in their mid-30s Secretariat probably would have picked his fourth or fifth year but now we'll never know would have been interesting to see
If God can run , He runs like Secretariat......
You have to wonder if in some future century there will ever be a greater horse, but until then...
There will never be a greater horse in a history of the universe
2 thumbs down must be for Bob costas
He just wanted to run....as one can see in his running like that at Claiborn Farms....bet as a stronger 4 year old he would have just been ridiculously dominant and more records made.
Watch him look at the camera lol