Me too.

Me too. 2023

I watch his races all the time! I hope to see him in heaven!!

Wow! That's wonderful.

@@BaseballandGraveyardsWhat a legacy I bet a pride and joy

He IS the greatest racehorse of all time, Carole - on a class all by himself, now and forever//

Best looking too ! Never seen another horse like him he had its all ! I'm sure your mare is beautiful too fine pedigree.

You are a very fortunate lady. Secretariat is the greatest racehorse of all time. I remember when he won the triple crown in 1973. I was 22 at that time.

As he was so amazing .... Humans took advantage

THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS OF SECRETARIAT & SOME OF HIS RELATIVES/RACE 🐎HORSES 🐎..I ALWAYS GET ENCOURAGED WATCHING SECRETARIAT VIDEOS...HE TRUELY WAS THE BEST RACE HORSE 🏇 EVER...AT LEAST IN KNOWN HISTORY..IN OUR LIFE TIMES. THANKS BE TO GOD WHO MADE HIM & TO HIS OWNERS, HANDLERS,& ALL HIS LOYAL FANS...LOVE&PRAYERS TO ALL, SHIRL,IN S.C.

Boy you got That right. I was 12 when Secretariat won the triple crown, watching and yelling with my dad, who was formerly a trainer.

When he won the Belmont, I was saying, "he's going to fast, he isn't going to make it. My dad said," relax, he is OK, he is doing it easily ". Truer words were never spoken.

Like the great journalist Bill Nack said "we'll never see anything like this again." Growing up in this era were not happy times. It took a race horse to lift our spirits and unite the country with something bigger than life itself. The day of this race was my last day as a teenager. To this day it is still the greatest single sporting event I've ever seen in my lifetime. I cry every time I see Big Red run in the Belmont. It was truly supernatural to the likes many believe we might never see again.

I cry every time I watch the Belmont.

Me too...such greatness..wish I could have met him!!

I cry like a baby every time I think about Secretariat or Ruffian. Two magnificent creatures, we will never see the likes of again.

So sorry he suffered with the painful and nasty laminitis : what an amazing creature👍👍😍😍😍😍

@@lespangensadly avoidable, should’ve saddled him up periodically to keep his weight down. Cart before the horse..

Wonderful story Karoline. Sorry about your loss. Precious memory.

camerasober ty yes it is every year I still feel the excited at derby time

Wow u said it so nice,i m big fan secretariat..lol...rip

@@karolinesmail489 I'm glad to see that you get excited every year at Derby time - I suspect that's how your father would want you to be.

@@karolinesmail489 my dad who died of Parkinson’s six years ago, I could get him to watch Texas Longhorn football or Secretariat run those races❤️ thank goodness for DVR! It was like he was yesterday. My bucket list is to go to secretary grave and leave a lLonghorn medal for my dad🤘🏻

Rest in power secretariat

Heartbreaking to visit his grave. Rips my heart out.

Can imagine He would be so happy to know he shared some of his strength with You when You needed so much❣️Thank you for sharing your story with us❣️

I plan on going to see it in 2022. Per the website, an appointment is needed. I know I'll have tears streaming down my cheek, but it's worth it.

thanks. great memories. Considering the training, technology, and food sources the horses get today from Secretariat's day. For him to still hold those records shows you just how great he was.

Howabouthetruth Thank God for the invention of film.

@@BaseballandGraveyards and his owners were struggling financially and Iam sure cut corners on feed quality in that time period

I don't understand that either. Secretariat's grooms (Bobby Anderson, John Sosbe, Melvin Olson) never ever did that.

Rest in power secretariat

thanks

He did 2 big reds that were perfect.

Amen and hallelujah ❤

Um, God commanded Penny's secretary to call him Secretariat..and she did//

Which is still 2nd fastest ever, Sham was no Sham indeed.

Lawrence!!!! Thank you for sharing that name. I remember Bobby, Melvin and John but couldn't remember Lawrence's name.

@@gweng.9159 John Sosby died not too long ago as did Gus Koch who took over as farm manager from John. I spent many mornings at the Claiborne breeding shed during the 70’s and 80’s and still send the occasional mare down there but their golden age was back then.

Yes! So true 🐎

Sorry,There was one before him. And some day there will be another. God loves his big reds.

Secretariat was never at the Kentucky Horse Park....

I beg to differ....but whatever. Since you seem to know all.

LOL.. no I don't know all, but I DO know that Secretariat was never at the Kentucky Horse Park...

When Secretariat retired, he went straight to Claiborne and he remained there for the next 16 years.. he never left Claiborne.. he was never at the Kentucky Horse Park...

Obviously you know all and I am assuming KY park just mislabeled that horse! Not that important to me any longer.

Paris, Kentucky

Yes, pretty sure I only said he was conceived at Claiborne. Thanks!

Sham was amazing.

Hi, I just meant to change Secretariat's time to the correct time, it was faster (and probably could have been even faster if Turcotte had pushed him). And then I remembered that poor Sham was right behind him. He too broke the 2:00 min. record. Like your video.

great memories.

@Thomas Dauphan Your memory of the Derby is not quite correct. Yes, (*in that race* ) Secretariat ran each quarter faster than the preceding. He did not make a sudden move at or entering the turn, like Zenyatta or other deep closers typically do. He was already in 5th or 6th, not the back of the pack, well before entering the final turn, and 4th entering the turn. A more serious error: Secretariat was NOT speeding up in the final quarter of the Belmont. (He probably did accelerate some in the final half furlong, when Turcotte, realizing the record was within reach, began to actively urge him.) Secretariat was slowing down throughout most of the Belmont, albeit more gradually than the other horses, hence his continuing to increase his lead. His 6 furlong split time as called by Anderson was 1:09 4/5. Do the math: if he had run the second half of the Belmont equally fast, his final time would have been 1:19 3/5, not 2:24 flat. His furlong splits for the Belmont (taken from Bill Nack's "Secretariat" were: 12 1/5 11 2/5 11 2/5 11 1/5 12 11 3/5 12 1/5 12 1/5 12 12 4/5 12 1/5 12 4/5 All his sub-12 split times are in the first half of the race. His slowest eighth splits are the final and third to last furlongs. His half mile splits are 46 1/5 48 49 4/5. In the fast half of the Belmont Secretariat (and Sham, up to about 5/8) were running faster than many good sprinters run sprint races of that distance. *No horse* is going to accelerate for long after running at that pace. Onlookers -- including Nack and Lucien Laurin -- were *horrified* at how fast the initial furlongs of the 1973 Belmont were being run. That pace in a 12- furlong race would be expected to make a horse collapse, as indeed is what happened to Sham. The glory of Secretariat's Belmont is that he had the stamina to finish the the race in sub-13 splits after setting that torrid pace. Seattle Slew, in arguably his greatest race, ran the first half of the the 12-furlong 1978 Jockey Club Gold Cup in even faster time, 1:09 2/5, while challenged by Affirmed. Affirmed faded. Slew hung on for a very game, close second to Exceller, in time of 2:27 1/5. 2:27 1/5 is a good time for that distance, faster than most Belmonts, but the great Slew slowed down more than Secretariat (after going a wee bit faster in the first half of a mile and a half race.)

@@marysueeasteregg Very nicely-written and accurate, thank you! :) I knew much of this already but you explained more (like about Slew's Gold Cup) and it's fascinating. Still the "Horse God Built" and there will never be another Secretariat!

Sorry I have a tablet and can't copy. Plus you can't spell simple words like would.

I wondered if that weight had something to do with the laminitis. People get something quite similar...I worked doing med transcription for 13 years and have heard about almost every malady that can strike a person, especially as we get older. When people gain weight and stop doing as much exercise they have inevitable problems with feet, ankles and knees and sometimes many other areas. A rich diet will take a toll and being overweight isn't good for anyone. Look up causes of laminitis and being overweight is the first condition mentioned. Love You Big Red...

It was poor management and not enough care after the laminitis set in. All they would have to do is make a special shoe with a slightly concave bar just blow the coffin bone to keep it from rotating down. I had a paint stallion this happened to we put those shoes on him in three months he was fine and I was riding him again.

Not only being overweight, but standing in a stall all day, and just getting turned out for a few hours (they graze; still eating) is not enough exercise. Secretariat never had a saddle on him after his last race, and taken for daily rides as he should have been. The great Man O' War was exercised religiously under saddle during his retirement. He lived to be 30. My wife's old Thoroughbred was ridden until the age of 32. He passed away at 34. Neither him nor MOW had laminitis.

Are you kidding me? You think Seth Hancock is guilty of poor management and not enough care? Egotistical much?

He was out for hours a day - every day - as are all of Claiborne's stallions. They don't just stand in a stall all day.

He was conceived at Claiborne, but was birthed in Virginia.

Mrbigp59 you are right

@@rossellapagot7969 See my post above.

You are correct that Arthur B. Hancock Sr. (1875 -1957) did originally own Ellerslie Stud in Virginia, but he and his wife founded Claiborne in Paris, KY in 1910, decades before Bold Ruler or Secretariat were born, on land in inherited by his wife. So camerasober is correct: Secretariat was *conceived* at Claiborne Farm, where his sire Bold Ruler stood at stud, but Secretariat was *born* at Christopher Chenery's Meadow Farm in Virginia. Secretariat's dam Somethingroyal would have been shipped, while pregnant with Secretariat, for her planned 1970 breeding to First Landing, who stood stud at the Meadow. Secretariat was born there.