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Nov 18, 2023 · In the concluding part of his unmissable series detailing Secretariat’s Triple Crown season, Steve Dennis recalls the equine legend’s farewell to racing – and his subsequent life at stud. With his victory in the Canadian International, Secretariat had brought his racing career to a close.
- The Beginning
- 1973
- The Belmont
- Laffit Pincay: 'Sham Would Have Been A Champion in Any Other Year'
- 'I Can't Fault Him in Any Way'
The contest for greatest Flat horse of all time is, according to some historians, strictly a three-runner affair. Sea-Bird, who won the 1965 Derby on the bridle and then followed up by winning the Arc – Europe's other most iconic race – is an obvious pretender to the throne, while unbeaten modern-day champion Frankel needs little introduction to yo...
His date with destiny began at Churchill Downs on May 5, 1973 when the emerging darling of not just the sport, but an entire nation, lined up in the Kentucky Derby. "I took him back to last, but on the back side we picked up horses like they were standing still," Turcotte says. "He just kept going and going. Sham was in front of us when we turned f...
The 1973 Belmont Stakes is one of most famous races in US history as Secretariat and old rival Sham, who also finished second in the Preakness, duelled at a gut-busting gallop that only one of them could sustain. "Secretariat is widening now! He is moving like a tremendous machine!" racecaller Chic Anderson bellowed as the three-year-old romped to ...
Laffit Pincay, whose 9,530 victories once made him racing's most prolific jockey, is, as Sham's rider, well placed to comment on Secretariat, even if he was left scratching his head in disbelief at times. "The best I ever saw," he says from California with unflinching certainty. "I knew he would be tough to beat in the Derby, but it was a mile-and-...
Turcotte, who grew up around horses as his father, a lumberjack, used them before mechanical replacements, fell into racing when moving to Ontario with his brother to work as a roofer and is not about to disagree with his former weighing room colleague's assessment of Secretariat. "I took everything one day at a time with him," he says. "My life wa...
- James Burn
- Lambourn Correspondent
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three of its constituent races. He is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time.
Jun 3, 2024 · Racing historian, author, and award-winning retired journalist for the Daily Racing Form and The Blood-Horse, Steve Haskin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame’s Media Roll of Honor in 2016.
- Steve Haskin
- Secretariat’s fate rested on a coin toss. In the fall of 1969, stable owners Ogden Phipps and Penny Chenery met in the offices of the New York Racing Association for what turned out to be one of the most important coin tosses in sports history.
- Secretariat was named Horse of the Year twice. After losing his very first race, at Aqueduct on July 4, 1972, Secretariat lost just once more in his two-year-old campaign, and even that was due to a controversial disqualification in a race.
- Secretariat lost the run-up to the Derby. Secretariat easily won the first two races as a three-year-old, before running a disappointing third in the Wood Memorial, his final tune-up before Churchill Downs.
- Secretariat set records that are still standing today. As the 1973 Derby began, Secretariat broke out of the gate last, before quickly moving up on the field.
Jun 9, 2023 · In the latest instalment of his popular series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Secretariat’s Triple Crown, Steve Dennis recalls an iconic display that has long since gone down in the annals of racing history. There hadn’t been a Triple Crown winner since Citation swept the board in 1948, but now, with record-breaking victories in the ...
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Apr 30, 2018 · Secretariat was a legendary thoroughbred racehorse whose name reigns supreme in the history of racing.
