Seeing these old races from my childhood brings me to tears,there will never be another "Big Red Machine",Secretariat.

I’ve been watching him since I was 13 years old in 1973 and all I can ever do is drop my jaw in disbelief, utter “Jesus” or cry. I’ve never, ever seen anything like that horse across the entire universe of possible subjects available for humans to think about. He was that f-ing stupefying.

Secretariat, the G.O.A.T.....we may never see another like him.

SECRETARIART IN THE LAST 1/4 MILE....JUST LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN.....NEVER AGAIN WILL WE SEE SUCH A MONSTER AS HE ON A RACE TRACK.....GOD BLESS...R.I.P. CHAMP

Once again, Secretariat goes from a distant 5th to winning without a whip. Amazing athlete and certainly the greatest racehorse of ALL time.

Perhaps the greatest field ever assembled for one race. Five champions, including Secretariat, were in this race.

Records that will never be broken! Just WOW and we got to see it live!

The Marlboro and Canadian International had two things in common, they were both fields of mature, stallions and geldings, who were established champion horses in their prime and as a 3 year old colt, he trounced them all. It would have been something special to see him run as a mature horse.

Riva Ridge with a winning performance most any other day. A great horse completely overshadowed by his stablemate.

No whip needed. A true beast.

Wide the whole race and under a hand ride the whole way. And sets a world record. Unbelievable.

After watching a healthy, filling out Big Red finish his shortened career with two utterly dominant turf wins against the best in the land, I am convinced that he would have been unbeatable. As great as Forego was-my favorite horse and one of the greatest weight carriers of all time, I don't think he could have beaten Big Red. Here he is beating a damned good horse in Riva while barely breaking a sweat. Citation, Kelso, Fager, Slew, Affirmed, The Bid, American Pharaoh, Cigar, John Henry, all superb horses; however, I would go with Secretariat as the best of the best.

never get tired of watching the greatest perform, how easy must it have been to work with a horse that just loved to run, no encouraging ever needed, his move at the Preakness still sends shivers down my spine...

Secretariat was that great as a 3 year old.. imagine if he would have run as a 4 or 5 year old..best of all time by a mile

WE MISS ANDLOVE, LOVE SECRETARIAT

Greatest athlete in the history of the world!

it's amazing to see secretariat and riva ridge racing...give credit to riva ridge for saving meadow stable.

All the Triple Crown winners were SPECIAL but SECRETARIAT just LOVED TO RUN. G O A T !!!! ☝☝☝

Kennedy Road was a Queen's Plate winner in Canada in 1971 and accompanied Secretariat down the backstretch before being left behind in the latter's final race at Woodbine.

This 1973 Marlboro Cup is one of my all-time favorite races because stable mates Secretariat and Riva Ridge finish way out in front, 1st and 2nd. Moreover, Secretariat's winning time was 1min 45 and 2/5sec, a world record for the nine furlong (1 and 1/8 miles) distance.

He ran so easy here and in a awful position, sets a record to boot. Unbelievable

Can you imagine Penny Chenery's thrill with this first and second place sweep by her two Meadow Stable babies? She must have been walking on air! People seem to have forgotten about Riva Ridge. He wasn't glamorous, but he got the job done and, in a fiscal sense, paved the way for the amazing Secretariat. Riva's Triple Crown miss occurred when he lost the 1972 Preakness, the shortest of the three races. He came back to win the Belmont three weeks later. These two winners left the thoroughbred racing world such wonderful memories.

"Here come secretariat..." Is permanent!!!🐎🐎🐎

He made it look easy. Blessed! The G.O.A.T. Mind boggling to know that people saw the greatest of all time race and to know he was the greatest

What can you say he beat the best of the best. THE IMMORTAL SECRETARIAT !

I always thought that Riva Ridge would have won the Triple Crown if it hadn't been raining in Baltimore during the Preakness.

It’s so awesome to watch that horse repeatedly come from behind to win. Watch how beautifully he runs in the stretch. The other jockeys must be thinking AGAIN? DAMMIT !

The worst words a jockey in the lead could ever wish to hear: "Secretariat is on the outside and challenging".

When Secretariat died they did an autopsy and found his heart weighed 22 pounds. An average horses heart weighs 8-9 pounds. My favorite horse of all time.

After the KD, winning and losing almost felt secondary in a Secretariat race; if he was right, everyone knew he would win, so he raced against the clock and track records. This fact alone is what made him so unique, and different from other champions. To me, the saddest thing that ever happened in horse racing was not seeing what the greatest thoroughbred racehorse in North American history would've been capable of, had he been allowed to race as a 4-year-old.

Cougar 2nd was a big time horse at Santa Anita... I never knew he was in a race with the GOAT!!

❤ HOW SECRETARIAT WOULD BE IN THE BACK OF A RACE...OR NEAR LAST....THEN TURN ON HIS TURBO POWER AND BEGIN TO MOVE "LIKE A TREMENDOUS MACHINE"...AND THIS RACE JUST SHOWED US ALL ONE MORE TIME THAT HE WAS MADE KING OF ALL RACE HORSES. HE WOULD OF PUT ALOT MORE DISTANCE BETWEEN HIS SELF AND THE REST OF THE HORSES IF HE HAD ANOTHER 1/4 TH A MILE. STILL HE WAS SIMPLY THE BEST. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS EPIC SECRETARIAT HORSE RACE.R.I.P.= RACE IN PEACE.....GOD BLESS ALL HORSE RACING FANS. LOVE AND............ PR❤YERS.

Big Red...so powerful and fast!!

It instructive to me to watch Secretariat's turnover rate as he moves up at the back stretch and he begins to move up. He is striding longer and turing over slower than the other horses. Once he gets even with Riva Ridge he ups it to RR rate and glides on by. According to Turcott he was not pushing it either. Call it as you like but he had special gifts. Key to the Mint dominated as a two year old -Eclipse. Aninhilatl"Em Travers winner. Cougar II HOF. Riva Ridge HOF. Kennedy Road Canadian Horse of the year. All older horses.

Riva Ridge was a stablemate of Secretariat and was a great horse in his own right. Rest assured, these two horses were familiar with each other with Riva knowing who the alpha was. He was in a no win position, but gave it his best shot nonetheles. Great race and finish by two beautiful and dominate horses of their day.

Every horse he beat in this,race was a champion. No dogs in this,race.

The length stride is just absurd - a horse who knew he could catch up with any horse, he didn't start with full power and sprint unlike every other one, he preserved his energy in the early meters of the race and slowly began to put on force with his wide strides and than started to surpass the opponents one by one, he had the ability to run each quarter of the race faster than the previous one, no other horse could do that, once he surpassed you there's no catching him again and you can be sure about this. He was unbelievable.

An absolute monster. With current training standards he could never be bested.

"Big Red"

No horse ran the home stretch like Secretariat.

My late pops was there!!!

Every single time Secretariat didn't win, he would set a record in his next race. That's a fact. :) Eddie Maple was on Riva Ridge and he commented that "I looked over and saw that big red head and those blue and white blinkers and I thought, 'What ya gonna do?' There's nothin' ya can do." :)

Gosh he ran by Riva Ridge so easily....

Nice to see Secretariat beat the field including Riva Ridge and Onion, who handed Secretariat one of his rare losses after boxing him in. This is the true greatness of Secretariat on display in this race.

Go watch the last race he ran and was then retired.

Great call by Dave Johnson here.

How many stables can boast two horses in two years winning 5 out of 6 Triple Crown races ? Riva Ridge and Secretariat. What a shame Mr.&Mrs. Cheney didn't live to see it.

I was there and I still have the race program.

Maybe it's just me, but doesn't Secretariat look like an offensive lineman blocking for the running back, Riva Ridge, as they round the corner for home, his hulking form preventing the advance of any competitors just as the announcer declares "the entry is running 1-2 for the Meadow Stable!" Then with what appears to be a puff of smoke, Big Red turns on the afterburners as Riva falls into place at second, followed by a bunch of horses who look like they don't know quite what hit them. An epic moment that had to happen, and I'm glad Penny allowed it to.

Riva Ridge was a great horse....

The prep races showed that to win takes a lot of pieces being put just so.

Clearly the 1 and 2 horses of the era. Love the no shtick call of Dave Johnson as opposed to his later triple crown cliche “ Down the stretch they come”.

If he was born in a different year, Riva Ridge would be Horse of the Year.

Have you ever seen a horse with better running motion?

Love you big boy

It was a world record at the time for that distance. Not sure if or when it was broken.

Secretariat was only 80% at best for this race. Secretariat pulled up a furlong in a 1 1/4 in 157 4/5 seconds. You image if he ran at Santa Anita race track? Secretariat would run 156 3/5 seconds on that track.

That was taken on September 15, 1973 at belmont right?

Facts that lead to truths are so interesting. It makes it that much more fun to "drone" the ignorant.

GOAT

I read an interview with Penny Chenery Tweedy's daughter. She said her mother respected and admired Secretariat, but that she loved Riva Ridge. Riva Ridge apparently was a real sweetie pie and Mrs. Tweedy just loved him.

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Where the hell was prove out? He should have bin in this race rte here.

What I see is he could have run significantly faster. By far the best horse. It looks like he could do whatever he wants. Win by three or won by twenty. Just wins.

He is doing it easily.

and who expected a different outcome?

Riva Ridge made him work for it.

met both horses @ claiborne ummm .bout '78 - '79. Nijinsky 11 was there. Tom rolfe, coastal. a few more Riva was a big horse. trotted over dude says stick out ur tongue boy n a long green tongue came out n then the dude says show em can still run boy n off he went . . . after the dude took our family around he called Secretariat n he came by head n neck above the fence n him eye ballin. I asked the dude if he'd git em closer he said he couldn't guarantee what a crazy horse would. but act like ur takin his picture. so we pantomimed the camera thing n he was out about 40 ft posing 4 us. well got ready 2 leave n 4 tour buses of oriental got the same tour.

Piece of cake X 2

I had not seen this race in quite sometime. Onion had defeated Secretariat in the Whitney. But the Secretariat team took no chances here. Using the 72 Kentucky Derby winner, Riva Ridge as a rabbit to burn onion out early. Then put in no effort in the stretch.so his stablemate would win. Secretariat lost his next race as well, without the rabbit effect. Phone Out kicked his butt. Definitely not in the same league as other champions. Struggled bad in open company.

Secretariat's only win against open company on dirt.

So Riva RIdge defeated Onion, but later Onion defeated Secretariat. Horse racing, shssshhh....dont' know about this sometimes a mystery.

Easy Goer was Being Compared to Secretariat and for Legit Reasons...Unfortunately Easy Goer had a Rider that was Spoiled Aboard him and Had No Respect for his Rival (Sunday Silence) or Any other Field and it Cost him some Big Races that He Certainly Should have Won

The only reason Secretariat ever lost a race is because he was handled by humans.

Do not understand why The Great Cougar 2nd was kept so far behind, its mind boggling. Has to be the worst jockey performance I've ever seen in my life time (pat day on Easy Goer in Preakness 2nd). Incredible. Incredulous. Around the far turn Cougar 2nd was coming like a freight train then on the top of the stretch for some unknown reason the jockey chooses to take the middle lane where Cougar 2nd is seriously impeded instead of taking the outside. Obviously, Cougar 2nd would have won with a better ride.

Riva Ridge would beat any horse who ever lived on a fast track The Marlboro was run on a wet track. The track condition was rated good on the tote board but the chart of the race says "fast" which it was not. There was a lot of water on it.

"In the 10, maybe 15 minutes it took to take that walk, Charlie must have wiped Secretariat’s ass at least nine or ten times," Nack said. "Diarrhea was running down his back legs. I asked Eddie, ‘Is he sick? Did he eat something?’ Eddie said, ‘Naw, he’s just nervous.’ ‘Nervous?’ I said. ‘What the hell’s he got to be nervous about?’ " In fact, Secretariat had been talking to his people. Prior to the Whitney he worked too fast, then too slow. Jockey Ron Turcotte voiced his concerns to trainer Lucien Laurin, but the show went on. There was great pressure to run, coming not only from track management but also a TV network tied to a four-race series in New York, with Secretariat as the star, and from the thousands of fans who were making a pilgrimage to Saratoga just to see the colt in the flesh. "I was learning then that anything could happen in horse racing," said Penny Chenery, Secretariat’s owner. "We knew he had a low-grade infection. But we decided he was strong enough to win anyway, and we were wrong. "I try not to brood about it. It was a bad result, but it did make the Marlboro much more important."

Riva Ridge may have finished 2nd but he was the horse that saved the Meadow Farms. In late Summer, Riva Ridge carried highweight of 127 and finished a game second to stablemate Secretariat in the inaugural Marlboro Cup Invitational H. at Belmont Park. Both of the Meadow Stable entries broke the World Record for 1 1/8 miles in this race and afterward Penny (Chenery) Tweedy led in the winning Secretariat, but then sought out Riva Ridge later explaining, “I have the greatest admiration for Secretariat, but I love Riva Ridge.” Earlier that summer Riva had a major win in the Massachusetts H.,setting a New World Record of 1:52:2 for 1 3/16 miles in the Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont. Riva Ridge sired 359 foals in his 12 crops at Claiborne. Of those, 29 were stakes winners, including Tap Shoes, Rivalero, Alada, Blitey, Expressive Dance, Cerada Ridge. Daughters of Riva Ridge produced more than 50 stakes winners, 4 champions, and G1 winners Dancing Spree, Classy Mirage, Life At the Top, etc. Not bad for a horse that lived on the same farm as the Great Secretariat!

This was racing to get excited about--not the crap they put on show now

Riva Ridge was so underrated, He was also owned by penny chennery! 🥹