Joey Ur soooo right ! Ty

❤ WHAT AN AMAZING ATHLETE, WHAT A MIND BLOWING 🏁 RACE TO SEE THE BEST RACE 🏇 HORSE EVER ... TO FINISH HIS LAST RACE IN TRUE SECRETARIAT FORM.....WINNING 6 LENGHTS OVER ALL THE OTHER WONDERFUL RACE HORSES 🏇 🏇.............. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ LOTS OF LOVE 💘💕❤💖💗💓💘💕❤ FOR SECRETARIAT AND RON T. HER JOCKEY....YET I HEARD HE WAS DISQUIFIED FROM RIDING SECRETARIAT IN HIS LAST RACE.❤ GOD BLESS THEM & ALL SECRETARIAT'S OWNERS AND HANDLERS AND FANS OLD &, NEW. WATCHING SECRETARIAT RUN THESE RACES.....AND HOW HE FINDS THE HIDDEN GEAR......THAT GOD PUT IN HIM.....WHICH HELPS HIM WIN 🏆 BY MANY LENGHTS AHEAD OF THE REST ........SIMPLY AWE INSPIRING. ❤. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO.....AND THANK GOD FOR 🙏 LETTING US GET A TASTE OF HEAVENLY SPEED.....JUST WATCHING SECRETARIAT FLY BY THE OTHER RACE 🐎 HORSES......LIKE THEY WERE STANDING STILL.... MAKES MY DAY EVERY TIME I REWATCH ONE OF HIS EPIC RECORD BREAKING RACES.LOVE AND PRAYERS....AND R.I.P. = "RACE IN PEACE".... "BIG RED".......AKA: BEST RACE HORSE 🏇 EVER.❤.

RESPECT. Say less

Case closed, 50 years ago 😊

Can you dig it...

I'm extremely jealous, I'm sure seeing this horse in person was an amazing experience.

Where did you ride?

How many people were there that day, Jay?

I was 11 that time when I went there

That would have been something. That close to a champion.

Have you been to his grave?

Powerful horse even in his final race.

@@jogman262 He was only getting started. A horse of his caliber was way too valuable to continue to race, but thoroughbreds don’t fully mature until they’re 4-5 years old. If he had not been retired and been allowed to continue to race, God only knows what kind of times he might have ran.

Exactly what I was thinking! 🐎

❤ YES, DISNEY DID A GREAT JOB REMAKING SECRETARIAT'S EPIC 3O SOME LENGHT WIN AT THE BELMONT RACE TRACK IN JUNE OF 1973.......AND USING SOME ORIGINAL RACE FILM FOOTAGE ....❤ REALLY TOUCHES MY HEART ❤AND SOUL AND ALWAYS MAKES MY DAY.... TAKES ME BACK TO WATCHING THE ORIGINAL RACE ON MY PARENTS 📺 TV HERE IN S.C........AND IT GOT MY TO STAND UP....JUMP UP AND DOWN AND CHEER HIM ON ...".GO BIG RED."GO....THANK YOU ALL FOR THESE TIMELESS SECRETARIAT RACES......AND THE TRUELY AWESOME "SECRETARIAT HEART ❤ OF A CHAMPION 🏆"💙❤♥ ....MOVIE /DOCUDRAMA.....BY DISNEY. LOVE AND 🙏 PRAYERS.

Yes it is incredible, I've been around horse racing all my life and I've never seen a horse like secretariat come even close to what he's done for racing. I'm 74 years old and still love the racing game. No horses in the future will ever beat Secretariat record none

Ron Turcotte was too lucky a guy to get to ride Big Red, y'know? Yes, Arcaro won 2 Triple Crowns, but neither was on Secretariat. Wow...

Never!!!!!

Gods horse. Wow. Well put

Except for Grand Slam Winner American Pharaoh who is descended from 1973 Triple Crown Winner Secretariat.. right?

The stewards had too much power. 5 days did not need to include a race of such magnitude. A real shame that Turc didn't get a chance to ride him in the finale.

And the people running up to the rail to get a closer look at him as he went by.

❤ SECRETARIAT ALL HEART AND WINGS ON HIS HEELS. SORRY RON DIDN'T GET TO RIDE.....STILL THE OTHER JOCKEY DID A GREAT JOB. 👍. JUST GOES TO SHOW SECRETARIAT KNEW HOW TO RUN HIS RACES...AND BLOW THEM ALL AWAY. THANKS FOR THIS AWESOME LAST RACE VIDEO. HE'S STILL UNBEATEN .....ONE OF A KIND.....GOD MADE A SUPERHORSE TO ENCOURAGE US WHEN THIS WORLD 🌎 NEEDED A 🏆CHAMPION. MAY HE RUN IN PARADISE AND NEVER GET TIRED OF WINNING. I HEARD SECRETARIAT HAD RAN IN CANADA TO BEGIN WITH? SO, SEEMS ONLY RIGHT THAT HE WAS ABLE TO RUN THERE AGAIN AND FINISH EXTREMELY WELL. GOD BLESS 🐎 HORSE 🏇 RACING.....AND GREAT MEMORIES OF SECRETARIAT ❤. THANK AGAIN FOR THIS PRICELESS VIDEO OF SECRETARIAT'S LAST GREAT RACE. LOVE AND PRAYERS. AND I READ HIS HEART WAS 2 AND 1/2 TIMES BIGGER THAN THE REGULAR THOROUGHBREADS. WITH BOLD RULER AS HIS SIRE AND SOMETHING ROYAL AS HIS MOTHER......HE JUST HAD TO BE THE KING OF ALL RACE 🐎 HORSES. VERY SAD THAT RON WASN'T ALLOWED TO RIDE "SECRETARIAT:AKA: BIG RED".....IN THIS LAST RACE. I BELEIVE ❤ THEY WILL BE RACING AGAIN IN HEAVEN TOGETHER. GOD BLESS . LOVE AND PRAYERS. P.S. SECRETARIAT: HEART OF A CHAMPION MOIVE IS A GREAT TRIBUTE TO SECRETARIAT AND THOSE WHO LOVED AND TOOK CARE OF HIM.❤.

Lol, Secretariat was just playing with them. This was his last race and I can just hear the jockeys orders. Win the race but dont you dare let him go full out and take a chance of harming himself. We have already seen what this horse can do in the Belmont. He has Nothing to prove !

And on the sixth day, God made Secretariat!

He wanted to run for God. He should have been let run forever. Now God has him, you will not get to make him go away when the Horseman ride him to the End.

And on the 8th day God made Secretariat.....best job ever.....

How did the time compare w track record? Seemed like a long distance

@@mortimerzilch9437 Not sure for that race. Would be interesting to know.

I am crying too! I cry anytime I see him. He was powerful and perfect but most of all, so painfully innocent too. The only time in this world, when something so pure and honest actually wins.

I cry too, it's so thrilling.

Jared Padalecki 4 The Fans -BeanieMoose

Jared Padalecki 4 The Fans -BeanieMoose. i get choked up. the last race, the steam coming from his nostrils, and the lit board in the background. he was unique. love watching belmont_ you see the ease of his movements.

You cry because you are seeing perfection.

He was astonishing......sad he had to retire......

+margaret brown I would have been one of them! haha

Margret I felt the same way! He was a peoples Champion as well !!!

He was a "phoenom"

I did hear, that some people ran out on the turf course, and got hand fulls of grass.

Horses have beaten him during his career. He wasn’t undefeated. I don’t mean to sound rude. I just wanted to point that out

Adam Spires didn’t he lose because he was sick and they pushed him to race anyways?

@@atomexpires yes that's true. Horses ran alot more races back then. Red lost 3 times. Once in his first race as a two year old. He was dqed once. His habit of running from the back came from getting bumped around in his very first race. Overall he was 16-3 including the triple crown where his track records still stand.

His last race. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hd1if8aHyc_OpGw.html

@@atomexpires Are you talking about when he had an abscess pre-triple crown races or when he was raced post triple crown when he was ill and ran with a fever? Not trying to start an argument, but this is known.

Or even come remotely close. Secretariat is easily the greatest athlete that ever walked the earth. No one ever dominated their sport the way Secretariat dominated horse racing. I firmly believe Secretariat could have won the triple crown every single year well into the 1980's had he been allowed to do so. The great Seattle Slew and Affirmed wouldn't have stood a chance against Secretariat

@@jasondulier3559 Yes!! Completely agreed.. Nice words..

Monarchos(may have spelled hat wrong) was half a second slower then secretariat

Winning one of the triple crowns is a feat in itself, winning the Triple Crown is glorious. But what amazes me most is that horse running each quarter faster than he did the last, it was in itself miraculous ! It just doesnt happen, unless your Secretariat !

Well Flightline will most definitely challenge this!!!

Yes!!!! For Ever and Ever!

agree :)

Exactly.. I dont think he ever thought to beat any other but his best..

No, I believe he knew. He knew what he was doing. Without arrogance, almost humbly. He just would win. Except at Belmont. There he felt like running! 🏇

julie hertz why was Ron suspended?

Aqueduct stewards had suspended Ron for 5 days following a ride aboard Speak Action....a 2 year old filly. I think that today, they would have let him ride and served the 5th day of the suspension on another day. Eddie was a nervous wreck, worried that if he lost, he would be the jockey responsible for Secretariat losing his last race. But Ron Turcotte had said the horse was so good, anyone could ride him and win, and Eddie Maple was a more than capable jockey!! Ron got to be on him at Aqueduct for his farewell appearance on the track when he just paraded before the crowed who turned out on a cold overcast day to see him. Secretariat seemed confused when after parading on the track, the announcer saying "The horse, is on the track" instead of the usual "The horses are on the track" after the Call To Post, because he was just brought back to the winners circle where a few pics were taken, then his saddle taken off, and Eddie Sweat led him away. It was a happy and sad day. I was there as a kid, and took some pics from the rail with my Kodak Instamatic camera.

And I always loved when they turn for home here, at 2:25 of the video....where because of the cool rainy weather, Secretariat looked like a steam locomotive as his nostrils exhaled the cool Canadian air at Woodbine to the time of his gait.....it always mede me think of Larry Adams, who rode Shecky Greene, saying that when Secretariat blew by, "He looked like the Red Ball Express".

I sometimes wonder if his suspension had anything to do with Canada wanting Kennedy Road to beat Big Red! Eddie maple was a last minute replacement but did a GREAT job! So if the intent was bad it didnt work!

@@taxisteve929 what year was Secretarit at Woodbine race track?

I can't watch any of his races without crying. I heard an interview once with a man who was there at that last race, and he said, "I truly believe we saw Pegasus that day."

So beautiful, agile, graceful and a staunch champion until the end. Loved the feel of the heat that set his legs on fire. He truly could have carried Apollo around the world with the sun in Apollo's hand. God bless and rest this gorgeous supernatural being.

Amen....to that!

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets teary eyed watching him run.

I do too... I always get teary eyed watching Secretariat race.. He was just so incredibly special...

Vince Young ... In a world where intellect alone is coveted and rewarded while the Heart is silenced, Secretariat awakens our Hearts... where our best comes from. Maybe the so called "second coming" was already here and it had to be a horse. :)

Savannah..We humans fail GOD (except HIS SON JESUS CHRIST).You bet HE made Secretariat to be "HIS CHOSEN" but also to share with us what seeing perfection can do for us both emotionally andspiritually in HIS divine way using HIS vast animal kingdom to do so.I am so grateful for the memory of Secretariat, and miss him so. He was euthanized on my 45th birthday, Oct. 4, 1989. Thank youand to all the others who experience the "tug of the heart string"when we watch as you say, "GOD'S horse."

Me too, but I had the EXTRA excitement of forgetting what happened, WOW!!!!!!!!

Let's be honest, there's a massive list of things the movie could have done much better.

It's that breathing steam part that gets to me. He's a monster coming down.

You too? I get goose bumps watching the Triple Crown Races as well! This horse was legendary!

+CapAnson12345 Big Red was/is the greatest.

Yep and that's all after running about 10f or so that he still had that much left in the tank after running over 1 1/4 miles!!!!

When it kicked in, Secretariat went flat-out turbo. Absolutely incredible. Watch it and still can't believe it really happened. His majestic power is surreal.

Big Red was once clocked at 49mph!!

@@foots-qt4pk wow!!

Big red forever

Big Red's secret weapon: A huge red heart almost as big as he was! More pump in this thump.

Yep!

More accurately his heart was nearly 3 times the size a normal horse weighing 22 pounds. Normal horses hearts are 8.5 pounds.

Well said. :) truly special!

brentbeardsley655, yes, he had "another gear": a heart that just happened to be over twice the size of a "normal" horse! Secretariat was simply a wonderful freak of nature and God's whimsy. (D'ya suppose She/Her/ Them did have any whimsey?) 😁

@@aileen694 agreed. That heart helped for sure but he was just blessed with incredible speed. The move at the Preakness stands out in my mind. When he decided to run he made the other horses look like they were standing still. Sham was a great horse and a worthy adversary but no horse ran like Secretariat did in 73.

He lost his first race because of jockey error. Lucian and Ron knew Big Red could run his own race. He was that perfect. He knew when to change lead hoof and kick it into turbo. Ron was there because of rules and just let him do his thing.

Absolutely - both the jockey and the horse knew exactly at what point the reins would be thrown away and the fun would start - had I been able to even ride behind him, I would have cherished that race for life

@@vickimcchesney1335 don’t you know it. Big Red will be one of the first I look up on the other side. Heaven would be a ride on the GOAT.

@@johnlackey1244 I'd call the maiden loss bad racing luck rather than jockey error. He got slammed between horses right out of the gate, I don't see how that is the jockey's fault. Feliciano may have placed Secretariat poorly going through traffic, I don't remember...it was only a 5 1/2 f. sprint.

Love that! Love Olga and Knievel even when Secretariat turned them into his bridesmaids.

Lol. I guess you have to be pretty old these days to appreciate that quip.

Yeah true same with me too

I thought the same thatbhe will fall on the 2nd position..

Leta Jagoe he wouldn’t let himself lose on his last race, he was a smart horse he probably knew that would be his last race and he knew he wanted to win it, he didn’t have to cause he still would’ve died a legend but he wanted to win his last race

Losing was never an option for the immortal Secretariat. The GOAT

@@tylermorro6663 he lost his first ever race, and then 3 more as a 3 year old. He was also relegated to second in one of his winning races due to a foul, but I don't count that one as a loss.

True, I'm glad he wasn't one of those horses with a name like Squid Trinket.

@Joanie Yes! There will never be another Big Red!

@@dabking3611 LOL! In response to you screaming at me:. Flight line is A beautiful horse with exceptional natural talent, Secretariat's records still stand today in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. Get back to me when flightline breaks those. Also, Secretariat had a fever the day he lost to Onion. That is not difficult to find.

@@maryc8552 To those people who say "But Onion beat Secretariat!!!!" I just point them to the Marlboro Cup, where Secretariat and Onion faced off again, except Secretariat was sound. And he beat Onion like a rented mule. Usually shuts them right up.

@@johnhunter2294 Good point.

He was running against the best of the best of the time. Sham was a cool horse. Love him. His heart was large like Secretariat's they say. Love they were cousins! They were royalty running swiftly side by side.

Love to see anyone mention Sham... he was also such a great horse... just had his career at the wrong time for him (and the perfect time for all of us, a hero needs a villian/superpower to push them beyond normal limits :)

There were three Triple Crown winners in the '70s, Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed, plus Alydar, Ruffian, Riva Ridge... you could make a pretty good case that from about '72 to '78 was the pinnacle of horse racing in America.

So where did Kennedy Road come in? Not 2nd.....

Kennedy Road was a great racehorse and was a 5 year old at the time of the race. He was injured in a previous warmup race about a week prior and was not at 100 %. Drop off at the stretch and finished eighth I believe.

Late summer, 1987. I was a 26 year old exercise jockey, breaking yearling throughbreds at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. One day, after the work was done in the yearling barn, my ground man asked me, "You want to go see the Big Horse?" Of course, I did! So, he walked me down to the stud barn, stood me in front of a certain stall door, and there he was: Secretariat. This horse LOVED attention! He immediately left the hay he was munching on in the corner and wheeled around to greet his visitor. I was in awe. He was 17 at the time, and still looked fit enough to race. I only got to pet him on the muzzle through the bars of the stall door, but silently wanted to be legged up on his back, if just for a brief moment. Still, I felt honored to be able to just pet him on the muzzle a bit. It's a memory I treasure, even more so as the years have passed. Anyway, just thought maybe sharing my visit with Secretariat would be some small consolation for your not being able to see him before he died. Wow, If only we could turn back time, huh?

@@SMac-bq8sk I'm jealous..

@@richardmorris7063: It is a treasured memory! But I sure wish I'd known back then what I know now; because, in hindsight, I was a fool for not at least asking for a few strands of hair from his grooming comb, or something. Opportunity lost.😕

@@SMac-bq8sk thank God for the internet,brings back good memories.That horse was one of my sports heroes.Now I'm a 65 yr old Secretariat fanboy..lol!

@@SMac-bq8sk What an awesome comment, thank you...

+Tuan Nguyen --Actually it`s been 96 years since the first Triple Crown.

+Shai Skikne ---Because his record hasn`t been beaten in that many years.. Geez!

+Shai Skikne --You truly are an idiot. His Triple Crown record.

nah; we selectively bred the animals for some impressive results, but they've pretty much topped out. enhancing traits of speed and power even further results in rapid over-stress and injury. there's nothing about the passage of time that creates a stronger species. perhaps a more adapted one, but if you're talking about the 'millions of years brings a more advanced, evolved species,'... you might be waiting for a long time. indefinitely, even.

Thanks for you reply,. I'm starting to believe the indefinitely part.

Imo the greatest superhero that ever lived.

you know they say his heart was double the size of a normal horse's. I believe it.

Yes this is true and during Secretariat's brilliant career he was often referred to as a horse with a "big heart" for the incredible way he loved to run - and win! After his death in 1989 it was discovered that Secretariat did indeed (physically) have a very large heart - estimated at 21 pounds (with the average thoroughbred heart being less than half of this). The doctor involved would later say he had never seen anything like it - nothing even close to it. I recall being not at all surprised by the news as it fully explained why we loved Secretariat back then - and why we still marvel over his records all these years later. Cheers from Canada! Home of the beautiful Woodbine Race Track (above) where our sweet boy rolled out his final win.

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The best horse ever.

VialliForever, Now, Your going to far. There is only one God, the God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Don't forget, God put Secretariat on Earth to show us God's amazing Glory.

@@auletjohnast03638 Not everyone is religious, my good sir.

chestnut, Oh, so you're the daughter of your god the devil!👿🔥happy barbecuing, watch the fork on your ass.

chestnut, Oh, so you're the daughter of your god the devil!👿 Happy barbecuing,🔥watch the fork on your ass.

@@auletjohnast03638 that’s not very omnibenevolent of you. Love thy neighbour. A