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Secretariat’s Toughest Race

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Posted By: DW626, 5/4/2024 8:22:21 AM

This week is the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby -- thought to be the longest continuous sporting event held at one venue in the whole world. As I wrote a while back, it’s also the most anti-woke celebration on the planet, floated on an ocean of that most American liquid -- bourbon whiskey. But then, there is just a lot of great history and lessons to learn in the racing game, especially as it all tends to reinforce the conservative worldview. For example, we have the sad story of human greed and the late, great Arlington Park racetrack outside Chicago, in Arlington Heights.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 5/4/2024 8:41:51 AM (No. 1711777)
Secretariat was the most gorgeous horse to ever put hooves on a race course. His win at the Belmont is still one of the most astounding moments in sports.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Aspen02 5/4/2024 9:02:48 AM (No. 1711796)
I will watch the CD of Secretariat again for about the 38th time. Love that horse!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 5/4/2024 9:02:55 AM (No. 1711797)
Yes, Poster 1, here is a Youtube video of the ‘73 Belmont. The call of the race by Chic Anderson is brilliant. “He is moving like a tremendous machine!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6Xu0SFqH0&pp=ygUTMTk3MyBiZWxtb250IHN0YWtlcw%3D%3D
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 5/4/2024 9:26:49 AM (No. 1711804)
Please excuse the second post. Secretariat’s Belmont time was 2:24. That is the Belmont record by 2 seconds. I believe 2 seconds is roughly equivalent to a 10 length margin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: udanja99 5/4/2024 9:57:13 AM (No. 1711819)
I have been posting on this site since the beginning and you know that I’m as conservative as it is possible to be but… I have loved horses for as long as I can remember, have owned a few and bred and foaled a couple. I loathe horse racing - it’s terrible for the horses. Like humans, their bones are not solidified until they are five years old, yet they are put into races at the age of two. And if they get injured badly enough they are put down. Their training makes an already highly strung breed emotionally unstable. My farrier refused to shoe them because they can be unpredictable and dangerous. Terrible for the horses. But go ahead and place your bets, drink your bourbon and enjoy the race. Hopefully there will be no deaths on the track this year.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kate318 5/4/2024 10:27:57 AM (No. 1711841)
Wow, what a snarky article. Not sure what the point of it was. To lat us know Secretariat wasn’t as great as we thought he was? To reveal that humans are deeply flawed?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 5/4/2024 10:33:49 AM (No. 1711844)
He won the Derby, sure. And the Belmont was an incredible performance. But where he really showed his stuff was at the Preakness. Went into the fist turn dead last, took to the outside (going into a turn?), passed the field like it was standing still, had the lead going into the backstretch, and never looked back. Unbelievable acceleration going around that turn. There's an ESPN SportsCentury episode on the web that documents the races really well, but to watch it you'd never know that Penny Chenery is anything but a sweet, little old lady.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/4/2024 10:46:50 AM (No. 1711853)
In 1973 the great red horse Secretariat set records in all three races: the Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. (The Preakness record had to be ascertained by close examination of tapes of the race.) The Belmont performance makes me cry every time I see it because that performance was the greatest athletic performance by man or beast in my life time. He won by 31 lengths, setting an all time record for the mile and a half, 2:24. When this greatest of all horses died in 1989, his heart was found to have weighed 22 pounds.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/4/2024 10:51:08 AM (No. 1711858)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM (1973 Belmont Stakes, Secretariat)
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 5/4/2024 10:55:08 AM (No. 1711865)
In the end, even Secretariat couldn't outrun the evil IRS bureaucrats. Re #2...is that a CD of the facts or the Disney fairy tale?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 5/4/2024 1:45:20 PM (No. 1711948)
Re #6, I think the point was that the Disney fairy tale was just that, a fairy tale with a lot of the reality of the situation left by the wayside, or just erased to make a better fairy tale, to earn more money. It's still a great story of a great horse, but like so many "well known" stories.....frequently things get at least "simplified" if not outright falsified to make a "better story". Bring in Hollyweird writers and the truth is the first casualty to their story telling.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: downnout 5/4/2024 2:47:27 PM (No. 1711976)
#5, I share your love of horses and I quit watching horse racing when I saw a horse break a leg during a race. All that power, their desire to run….and on those four delicate legs. It doesn’t take much. I still remember that awful match race with the great Ruffian…destroyed by the egos of owners.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 5/4/2024 3:27:36 PM (No. 1711996)
This badly-written story if full of factual errors. • Secretariat was unanimously chosen as Horse Of The Year as a 2-year-old by professional horsemen - - without any "campaigning" by Penny Chenery. • His owner - - C.T. Chenery - - died after Secretariat's superb 2-year-old campaign - - leaving the family exposed to communist death taxes. They tried to cover the taxes by syndicating Riva Ridge - - who was a great race horse, but not a great stallion prospect. He couldn't fetch enough money as a stallion prospect - - and, in fact, was not a successful stallion. • The family did everything they could to avoid selling Secretariat - - but there was no other way to raise enough money to pay the death taxes. So he was sold BEFORE his brilliant 3-year-old campaign. They got $6.3 million - - but after his Triple Crown win - - they could have gotten over $50 million. So the family not only had to pay outrageous death taxes - - they also got screwed out of over $40 million by having to prematurely sell their great horse. • In an unbelievable series of performances - - Secretariat broke all three Triple Corwn track records - - an unheard of feat. No other Triple Crown winner even came close to doing that. And to top it off - - all three track records still stand - - 51 years later. They say records are made to be broken - - but Secretariat's haven't been - - and likely never will be. He was a marvel of an athlete. • The family was eager to race Secretariat as a 4-year-old - - but his buyers insisted that he should be retired to stud after his 3-year-old campaign. So the communist death taxes prevented us from seeing Secretariat race another year - - a year in which he would have been even more magnificent than ever. I am still FUMING over death taxes preventing Secretariat from running another year! Only Man O' War could be compared to Secretariat as a great race horse. They tower hugely over all other American race horses. And thoroughbred horses are not "highly strung" - - they are gentle, docile animals - - who live pampered lives. Some of them get injured - - as human athletes do - - but unlike humans - - the horses aren't intelligent enough to follow a regimen of recuperation - - Ruffian was a clear example, thrashing out of her protective casts - - and so they have to be humanely euthanized. Sob stories about how badly race horse are treated are blatantly ignorant!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Kate318 5/4/2024 6:02:43 PM (No. 1712062)
Thank you, #13, for setting the record straight. Awful lot of “experts” on this site.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: IceQueen 5/5/2024 1:58:38 AM (No. 1712181)
B'H I kinda prefer the good ol' Biscuit. . .Laura Hillenbrand's book (see also "Unbroken") I do so enjoy. Both survivor tales.
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