If Secretariat wasn’t enough, you had the best race caller in history, Chic Anderson. That put it over the top.

The Belmont race had to be his best ever, watch The Preakness he won. That burst of speed when he passed the other horses while going into the backstretch. Just flew right by them.

Watching Our Lord God's creation accomplish awe-inspiring feats which stand the test of time is truly amazing. His work is humbling.

me too !

Tears I go into a full cry greatest horse that ever lived♥️🥲

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That's almost like having a relic from the Titanic. Awesome!

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He was the greatest ever for more than one reason, his musculature and bone structure just two pieces of the puzzle. But I think those two aspects of who and what he was were just as intrinsic to his makeup as was his 22 pound heart. And all that doesn't even touch upon his gentle soul and the look of eagles in his eyes.

Beautifully said!

Secretariat, you will always be loved forever....

🙏amen🙏

So well articulated!!

And as a racehorse he was electrifying!

Horseluver4ever 1234 You got that right,what Secretariat did at the Belmont would be equilavant to a man running 3 and a half minute mile,extraordinary !!!!!!!!!!

Timothy Brock wow, I never put that into perspective with a human!

Great video!

My Nana Shook is a huge fan of this magnificent animal

I agree with you 100%!

I was 14..and i remember it clear as day..all 3 races..he is, he was , And always will be the.... GREATEST...We all miss u and love You...i hope him Penny,and especially Eddie Sweat..the were a perfect team..and lets not forget Ronnie Davis either..i hope your have fun again..🙏

I was -5 years in 1973😂 and watched it 15 years back.. still say the same, feel the same, GOAT👍👍🙂🙂

Still racing in his mind you can tell

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He was pleasant to watch.

You can take a race horse off the race track, not you can't take it out of their heart ❤

All 3 of his times still stand. No horse has done better. You are correct.

He was God's horse. Magnificent.

I was 12 in 73. I recall my father saying something in passing about a horse race. He said “ man, this horse is something else, you might want to watch this race today”. But, I was just a dumb kid and didn’t understand the significance. One of my many regrets not watching. I had the chance. All these years later I realize he was talking about Secretariat in the Belmont.

Lucky you ❤

I watched on tv and fell in love with that big red horse. I was a rider - Western - but would often pretend to be racing, and imagine I was on that tall, beautiful horse. Although I loved my short little Morgan. What a horse he was!

True words!❤

I’d have to look to find the video again, but I swear Eddie Turcotte once said in a talk or an interview that he purposefully held back Secretariat at the beginning of both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. I’m not sure why he would do that, but I think he was last, or close to last at the start of each race and then he started to change gears at some point. There’s a point in the Preakness where his acceleration looks like a Tesla Model S and he just starts zooming past the other horses. Eddie said that he decided that, for the Belmont, he wasn’t going to hold him back. He was just going to let him go. He immediately went out to the front and obviously stayed there and we’ve all heard that Eddie never went to the whip. The horse just wanted to run fast. It makes me wonder if Eddie hadn’t held him back at the Derby and the Preakness, if he wouldn’t have won those races by 30 lengths too.

@@Whoopdido777 You've got names mixed up. Secretariat's jockey was *Ron* Turcotte. His groom was Eddie Sweat. Though I can't be certain, I strongly suspect you're also mistaken about Turcotte holding him back in either race. Secretariat had plenty of tactical speed, and there wouldn't be much point in deliberately placing him last, where he could run into traffic problems -- he won races stalking and on the front end, as well as coming from behind. Turcotte usually let him him his own race, I think, at least as a 3-year-old. Secretariat was often slow out of the gate, quite possibly because in his maiden race he was slammed between horses and knocked almost to his knees. Chenery thought it made him (understandably) wary. Turcotte did say Secretariat could have won the Preakness by 16 lengths.

@@marysueeasteregg You’re exactly right about the names. Big mistake on my part. You’re right about his maiden race too. I wish I could find the video but I swear I saw Ron, Penny or both say that they deliberately held him back a little bit in maybe in the Kentucky Derby in order to rest him for the next two races. Or maybe it was the Preakness and that’s why Ron said he could have won by 16 lengths. Ron held him back a bit in order to rest him for the longer Belmont.

@@Whoopdido777 Yes, not extending him in the first 2 races would have made sense, with the others coming up. (Might have been 14 lengths rather than 16...Turcotte definitely said one or the other about the Preakness.)

@@marysueeasteregg I know that Pincay (Sham’s jockey) said that he couldn’t believe how easily Secretariat passed him at the end of the Kentucky Derby. Turcotte never used his whip and Pincay was was whipping the hell out of Sham the whole time and Pincay looked over and was shocked at how easily Secretariat blew by him. He could have won the Kentucky Derby by more too had he been pushed I think.

I was only 5 y/o in 1973, but I can understand what he meant to our country, dealing with the end of Vietnam, Watergate, Civil Rights, etc...I think that might just add a bit of glory to this magnificent champion; he helped us heal and root and be happy.

I was also 20 in 1973 seems like yesterday at times & then it seems like soo long ago 🏇

Amen and Amen

What a great story. Laurin said he was lazy. He lost races; he had people guessing. Turcotte said that anyone could have ridden him to victory. He killed in the Triple Crown. To say that he quit at the top of his game is a massive understatement. Secretariat.

i met penny when big reds grate grate grate grandson american pharoah won the tripple crown at belmont i live not far from belmont sat bout 4 ppl to her right asked her bout the relation to big red n she infact stated that she thought he would do it bc of the blood line

perry dubbzz American Pharoah inherited Secretariat's stride.

GREAT GREAT GREAT grandson

God loaned him to us for a little while to marvel at.

19 years is not enough for a horse like him. The perfect horse. The one anf only.

19 years for a horse is still a good life

Was just gonna say the same thing. How can you not get teary eyed watching this?

yea! Reminds me of my mare, expect when ever someone is looking at her-or filming- she shows of, and gives me the best ride ever! (I ride dressage-only just started getting into showing)

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I've said it before and I'll say it again the horse is the most beautiful showoff I like seeing because their majestic but Secretariat has his own spot in the show off thats beyond majestic there was a sparkly behind those eyes

He WAS a big ham. He liked to puff himself up when he knew the cameras were on him. They said he knew he was the $hit and liked to show off :)

@@nostromo7928 It appears Secretariat is showing off in this video! I’ve never seen a horse all out run and kick up his heels just for the fun of it. Mostly they just hang around chewing!

Yes he loved running and he loved life

Stu Stewart EXACTLY!!! 😎👍

Stu Stewart I agree with you enough said.

“Never again” they’ll be another horse one day to beat his records

@@jas6853 There will never be another though. He was perfect.

Totally The Greatest Horse God ever created,the Boy was perfect in every way even in his losses.

He didn't do too badly with girls either: Beholder, Rags to riches, Monomoy girl, Serengeti Empress, all are his descendants.

Don't forget his awesome grandson as a sire - AP Indy. It certainly didn't hurt that his sire was Seattle Slew.

@@garotadagavea He sired excellent broodmares which many breeders had anticipated. It angers me when people say he was a dud as a stallion. He couldn’t duplicate himself because he was one of a kind and that’s what made him so special. He sired really good horses and needs to be given more credit for what he produced.

Grandfather of AP Indy and Gone West also.

What ??? Really?

Rest in power secretariat

My feeling as well.

Some of the most beautiful words ever said about Big Red ... " ...allowed to create the wind all others chase."

Patty Healy i love them so much they are my heart.

We were all truly blessed to be able to see such a magnificent beautiful horse

He set a record after every lose he ever had amazing..

Rest in power secretariat

He sired more than 650 registered foals. He has a daughter Trusted Company born on February 14, 1989 and a son Maritime Traveler, who was born in 1990 from the last crop. Both are still alive but probably won't be around much longer. They are the last two surviving children of Secretariat after Border Run died at the age of 34 last month.

​@@mikemadunic7960 Thanks for that info, Mike. There is only one word for Big Red, that is, MIGHTY! I was watching on TV in 1973 when he won the Triple Crown and I whooped and cried, I was beyond thrilled! First TC since 1948! I was all alone that Saturday, but I had been following the impressive Secretariat since the Derby so had cancelled everything to be by the TV. I had been seriously unreachable on Saturdays when the Triple Crown races were on for about ten years. I didn't like bourbon but always had my one bourbon- lemonade over crushed ice with mint from my garden, when I watched the Derby and I'd pour myself a drink well before the Post Parade and watch the horses make their way to the starting gate and watch my pick run. The year Secretariat won, I had picked him to win so was just ecstatic that day, I'll never forget it as long as I live and I've been to many horse races before and since, but none quite like that one. I watched Big Red win by 31 lengths and absolutely quieted for a few seconds after he won, then came the tears! I was probably as thrilled as if I had been there that day. Secretariat: (March 30, 1970 - October 4, 1989), was age 19,1/2 when he died so he had a lot of years to sire foals. I pull up that race on the computer every race season and watch it and am thrilled all over again. He was a magnificent, three-year-old at the Derby and stayed a memorable example of pure CHAMPION to his last days. RIP, RED! The world didn't see a Triple Crown winner until for 25 years until Secretariat captured the honor in 1973. Then came consecutive Triple Crown victories by Seattle Slew in 1977 and Affirmed in 1978 excited racing fans, but another long 37-year dry spell until American Pharoah won the Triple Crown in 2015. The wait for the next winner was short, as Justify accomplished the feat three years later. I think I saw them all win their Triple Crown but none thrilled me as much as Secretariat. Seattle Slew was a West Coast horse so I had picked him. Affirmed was a Florida horse. I didn't pick Justify, a Kentucky horse, because he had failed a drug test weeks before the 2018 Kentucky Derby and probably should have been disqualified for the Derby but the case was dropped and he ran and won. Later, somehow the Egyptian owner of Pharoah didn't thrill me much because I had picked Dortmund in 2015. Still exciting though. We'll see what happens this year. Six-time Derby winner, Bob Baffert has a few of the top early choices. So does Louisville native Brad Cox, who has never had a Derby starter but hopes to bring the 2-year-old champion, Essential Quality, along with a few others, to his hometown track. I'm not certain whether I condone foreigners racing their horses at our Big Three horse races, Japan has entries for 2023 and so does Saudi and Dubai, and maybe other countries also. I'm watching the gray horse - EQ, Practical Move, Forte and Cave Rock right now, but in 3 days, it's February 2023, so some surprising changes could show up before 5-6-23!

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Ahhh but there was one other as good as him, and SHE was also a tripple crown winner, ( 1975 Fillie Tripple Crown) in my view Secretariat was the 2nd best horse of all times, as he lost 2 races in his career while Ruffian (his niece) lost 0 races out of the 10 races she ran, no other horse ever came close. Her Sire was Reviewer who was brother to Secretariat, Both were Sired by Bold Ruler. Just a shame she broke her leg in her final race, a match race against 1975 Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, and had she not broke down, she'd of won that race to as she was already ahead by a length and a half at the time her leg snapped.

I agree with you. People talk about races when horses lost 0 races. They don't understand the stamina and the strength and endurance he had. The way he dictated his own races to win and the fact all of his races the records have not been broken as we speak as of yet. Yes he lost a few races the the performance he did, it's jockeys today that says that horses today can't run the way and the time he ran and They see that's it's unheard of today of horses. His performance made him the best athlete of the 20th century. The horses today cannot do what this horse did. Every race re ran during the triple crown, he ran them faster and ran them in record time. Like I said performance and strategy made him as he is today. Definitely my favorite horse. Almost 40 years has past and no horse has done what he did. He had to be excellent they made a movie about him. I love you BIG RED.❤

No, he wasn't one in a million or we would have seen others like him. He was one of a kind. Perfection. Never to be repeated. There will never be another like him. His heart was 22 pounds! The average thoroughbred horses heart was 8.5 pounds. He was in a class all his own . Like Elvis. Never ever another . We were blessed to be alive to see him and know of him. How I wish I'd met him. I'll see you on the other side, gorgeous Red.

@@simtasticgrl271 I don't know anything about horses or racing but I did watch a video about Secretariat and they mentioned that many of the races that he lost were lost due to physical issues. I know he was hit very hard coming out of the gate in his first race and many conjectured that that was why he held back at the starts, preferring to let the crowd even out and then make his move. I know he had other physical issues such as a sore in his mouth. I just love watching him run. I wish that I had paid more attention when he was alive and had the opportunity to see him. I can't say he has changed my interest in horses or racing but this one horse was special. I am sure that Ruffian was a fine horse also and we are each entitled to our opinion about who was the best.

just think people eat them !

Same here, he hits a chord...

me too

Yeah I think approximately 22 lb!!!

That was a gene mutation from the mare Pocahontas for a fully functioning very large heart(22lbs) not diseased at all. Sham had this too his heart was 18 lbs. the gene is only passed through the mares.

sorry pal, not even close. Secretariat was faster in every distance either ever ran. Computer recreations shows Secretariat beating Man O War everyday all day. No comparison. MOW 1.5 mile time / 2:28 4/5 / SEC 2:24, MOW 1.25 mile 2:01 4/5's / SEC 1:59 / MOW 1 mile 1/16 time 1:44 4/5's / SEC 1:42. Chavez numbers don't lie. He was way faster. No horse ran as fast as Big Red did, period.

Oh gawd, here we go again.

I simply was referring to period of time on YTube starting about 2006 which was painful to read the things people would say. I'm sure both Secretariat and Man O' War are off somewhere in thoroughbred eternity just rolling their eyes at the silly humans who go on with this human back and forth battle. But I will say I don't think John was making his arguments only about computers. Secretariat was a phenomenon whether you like it or not, M, and I have to say when you look at old movie tape of Man O' War standing there with muscles rippling, he is breathtaking to watch. They both were 16. something hands high. I thought MOW was taller but not so. Maybe it's different conformation in that MOW's neck was narrower and longer and maybe a little longer back. Secretariat was "short coupled" a shorter back. S had a gentler temperament, whereas MOW was more difficult to handle. But he had a black groom, Will Harbut, who was very gentle himself and was with MOW constantly. What is painful is that Harbut died and then 2 weeks later MOW had a heart attack and died. He must have been, to me, stressed and maybe traumatized. Where was the gentle soft spoken comforting companion he had for 30 years.

+Michael Rodriguez His mal

The greatest racehorse ever!!!!! Watching him makes my day 45 years later- what a perfect perfect animal. Forever a fan.