No need to compare the two cause they are family!

True, but the Breeders Cup began in 1984 and the last TC winner was Affirmed in 1978.

julie hertz btw the grand slam was brand new sooooo technically he's not the best because any horse who competes in the grand slam can probably beat American Pharoah.

Secretariat won the Triple Crown and the Breeder's Cup forerunner of the day: The Marlboro Cup - and set track records in all four races, including two world records(!). That was also a grand slam and one of a calibre unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.

Well that is one way to do something no other horse has done before: institute a new race and include that as one of the requirements.

Oh shut up.

and note: He's already been beaten. 5 times to be exact.

Lucia Oakgarden Hes dead, get over it. Secretariat was not a normal horse, he was an unbeliveble. But he's dead now... And you don't know who's the best if they don't race. But he's the best (right now). Secretariat was the best but not now.

Majsburken 2.0 Aaq

well see. the beautiful thing about racing is that records still exist and it is all time based.. much the same way we compare Jesse Owens against our modern Usain Bolt. clearly one is better than the other.. one has the world record.

I met him and Justify last summer at Coolmore farms.. both beautiful horses

Doesn't automatically mean they'd have a good foal, pharoahs foals are untested and none of Zenyattas foals have done good on the racetrack.

Yes if ruffian was still alive the would have been a match made in heaven

Rize Gold. Eh I don’t think so she never got to breed so her foals where never preven

Rize Gold look at secretariat one of the best race horse ever and he was a bad stallion

@@ryleigh995 no, that's a misnomer. Secretariat was a very good stallion. He just didn't replicate himself which no stallion can do. Secretariat sired the winner of 2/3rds of the Triple Crown - Risen Star who won the Preakness and the Belmont. He sired Travers Stakes Winner General Assembly who held the stakes record in that race for over 30 years until Arrogate beat his record a few years ago. Secretariat also sired the great Lady's Secret who was Champion Older Mare and Horse of the Year. She was known as the Iron Lady because she raced and won so many stakes races over several years and many of them against males. Horses don't run and win the huge number of races at the caliber that she did anymore. Secretariat also sired two time winner of the Pacific Classic, Tinner's Way as well as stakes winner and sire Pancho Villa. Those are just a few off the top of my head. But what Secretariat is best known for was being a Champion Broodmare Sire. He passed on his big heart through his daughters, and they went on to produce many stakes winners and champions for years after his death, including the tremendously successful breed-shaping sires AP Indy, Storm Cat and Gone West.

I hereby grant you permission to cry.

He's a really lovely horse with a lovely conformation, movement and temperament. I love his bright bay coat, it's gorgeous.

I got to see him at Ashford last summer as a graduation gift! He is a spectacle -- handsome, with such a dignified, gentle presence to him. I'll never forget the way that he turned his head to look at all of us when the tour guide led us over to see him. Truly, one of a kind.

@@a.m.3000 Oh,envy! I would love to see him.I'm glad to know,from someone who has seen him firsthand,that being put to stud hasn't changed his temperament.

Wow lucky you. I would love to see him. I did see him win the breeders cup An amazing beautiful horse. Just love him

He's only 8 or 7

He's still a cutie

Tell that to the name tag on his owner’s stable at @1:42

It was always so, but even more so these days. They are in it for the prestige and money. But they keep the sport alive.

We might go to Kentucky next year I whant to see justafy and cute horses

DaebakMonkey So true!!!

Lyre Burch no. Secretariat was unbelievable. no horse could be “100 times the horse” he was.

@@gloriousequine1435 Consider Man O' War.....

Secretariat is the most well known horse UNDER the earth.

American Pharoah is one of the great Secretariat's descendants. Two beautiful horses.

Hayley Whitfield yup!!

Hayley Whitfield I don't agree but that is your opinion

i agree

That is being reluctant if you don’t agree. Times don’t lie. Record times still to this day for all 3 tracks.

Dean & Kristy Garrett but the records beg to differ. Secretariat ran all of the Triple Crown Races in record time. The Belmont was a world record. He ran in the Marlboro Cup against older horses and won in world record time. He was still accelerating at the wire in the Kentucky Derby. That’s all on dirt. Ron Turcotte, his jockey, was convinced that he was even better on turf. His heart was 2.5 times bigger than a normal horse’s heart.

Dude he is a triple crown winner. His breeding will earn the owners millions!

katana489 that horse is worth 35 million a year, he isn’t going to slaughter. Also there are people called “kill buyers” they buy horses at auction and send them to a slaughterhouse. Not part of the racing industry

That's a myth. Most thoroughbreds after leaving the track go on to be pleasure horses, hunters, jumpers etc. They make the best eventers.

Quit being so stupid. VERY few Thoroughbreds go to slaughter after their racing days are done.

+CRRR LMAO....

CRRR lol

lol

Jesus can no thoroughbred even take a step without people having to scream "bUt SeC WaS BeTtER", stop comparing every single horse with him, it gets old and annoying.

I understand your frustration its just he set the bar so high. No different than every great basketball player is compared to Jordan.

Him and Secretariat are related

To me he is

+PepsiMama2 They usually get the whole morning out and then come in for lunch and relax til dinner But Coolmore has tours so I'm sure every once and awhile he'll see some fans later in the day

+PepsiMama2 Actually, at many stud farms they are turned out in the afternoon and not brought in til the next morning. So they get PLENTY of turn out time. The better part of their lives will be spent in their paddocks.

+PepsiMama2 Every morning he is outside and next to him is Thunder Gulch keeping him relaxed

oh awesome.. thanks...

Your horses names is what?? Defication, as in a bowel movement?

Janet Hill No It’s Deification as in God Like. That’s his Jockey Club Registered name. I call him Lucky

Hunner Coffee Secretariat**

+Brenda Dale Not really Brenda as to his get making news. Secretariat dropped some good horses. General Assembly, Risen Star and Lady's Secret to name 3. In his 12 years at stud he was considered to be a tremendous broodmare sire. Did he replicate himself? No, but that would have been almost impossible. Risen Star, except for a brutal trip in the Derby would have won the triple crown.

+Mel Neri Would have been 16 years at stud (1974 through 1989). Secretariat died in October of 1989 and from my understanding developed laminitis a few weeks to a month or so prior to his death, so that illness would have had little effect, most likely none, on his breeding season of 1989. (Unless I'm wrong about how long he had health problems?)Agree it's not valid to say he didn't produce any news makers. Lady's Secret was Horse of the Year.

Alydar was a great sire until that Lundy guy had him killed for the insurance. Seattle Slew did pretty well too. Native Dancer was another whos progeny changed Thoroughbred blood lines for the better.

Brenda Dale ummm Gallant Fox and Omaha we’re both Triple Crown Winners. Gallant Fox is Omaha’s sire

Secretariat is American Pharoah's 3x great-grandfather so he passed on his genes nicely.

+Jose Pinela Risk, one bad fall and you ruin one of the potentially greatest sires to ever live.

They normally retire horses once they turn 3 or 4 since they're usually "worn out" idk if that's why but you also don't want to risk an accident on the track and kill him before you get to breed him.

@@ooogabooga3335 no, they are not "worn out" at three or four. Many horses race successfully past those ages, but the majority of them are geldings who cannot breed and mares who may not have much value as broodmares. A Triple Crown Champion and Breeder's Cup Champion and Horse of the Year like American Pharoah is retired at the end of his three-year-old year because he has already won the highest caliber races he can run in. He has nothing left to prove, and the best thing to do is to retire him to stud. He is too valuable of a horse to continue racing. Should he continue racing and lose races, his value will go down. Plus, the insurance premiums on a Triple Crown Champion are way too high to continue to race him. Retiring American Pharoah after the Breeder's Cup Classic was the best thing to do for the horse to assure him a healthy happy life at stud.

@@suzanneyoung8011 yes, some go past 3 or 4. But I've met MANY racehorse that get retired at thr age of 4

Why Da Long Face stallions and mares often retire to stud, even for just a few wins. For the ones that don't go to stud, most TBs get second homes, they are actually really in demand. The jockey club has taken large measures and is good about enforcing them, if a trainer is caught abusing/drugging/selling for meat. I know the last one is a life time offense, after that they cant train anymore. Again, TBs and OTTBs are in high demand. The hunters like them, they are ok in dressage, but they are the jewels of cross country/3 day eventing. Only TBs or near TBs can go all the way. Most of the TBs that do end up in kill pens are from being passed around, home after home, until they end up there. Statistically, more Quarter horses go through kill pens then OTTBs. The high dollar horses get 5 star treatment, and most of the ones that leave the track are spoiled and rack up ribbons.

Secretariat was a very special and unusal horse. American Pharaoh I agree was not as fast as Secretariat and I think maybe in the future there will be a horse that will beat secretariat and that horse will be very sepical indeed

Yeah I agree that Secretariat was better than American pharoh, but you can't deny that pharoh was a great and unique horse

WickedPastel AJ So true!

WickedPastel AJ I agree

+Cayla Reeder he is the only horse to win the grand slam name another?

Grand Slam: Triple Crown and the Breeder's Cup He is, in fact, the only horse to win the Grand Slam of Horse Racing

Justin Secretariat won the precursor to the BC. I can't remember the name of it right now.... It's an age thing. Lol. But Big Red DID win the Grand Slam of his time.

nancy windrow no he didn’t

nancy windrow secretariat did not win the grand slam

Huh? If it's a stallion and successful they retire at 3 to go to stud, because that is where the real money is. And horses that race but don't win are most often retrained quite young for other disciplines, if they are sound.

Zenyatta won the triple crown ? That's not true , she won I guess 21 or 22 straight races coming from behind that's amazing and she deserves to be named between the greatest

Zenyatta didn’t win the triple crown

No, Zenyatta never raced in the Triple Crown races (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont which is for three year olds only). She did most of her racing as an older mare and ran against fillies and mares only except for her two runs in the Breeder's Cup Classic against male horses in 2009 and 2010 in which she finished first and second respectively. Her only comparison to American Pharoah is that they both won the Breeder's Cup Classic. He won it as a younger horse than she was when she won it, which is hard to do running against older horses. However, her thrilling last to first win in the Classic was far better than his win.

There is a grand slam in horse racing. It's when a horse not only wins the Triple Crown, but also goes on the win the Breeders Cup Classic, He is the first to do so.

You're an idiot who clearly doesn't know much about racing. American Pharoah DID win the grand slam, it consists of the triple crown and the breeders cup classic. Also, prior to affirmed was Seattle Slew, THEN Secretariat. Might want to fact check before you run your mouth, idiot.

Prior to Affirmed was Seattle Slew, in 1977, after Secretariat in 1973.

Henry Wieneke you got you dates wrong 1973 comes before 1977

Really Tooy, Secretariat DID win the Grand Slam of his time. He won what is now known as the BC. I just can't remember the name of it right now. Getting old ain't for sissies. Can't remember squat. Lol

Since he's only been at stud for a couple of years, his offspring are only just reaching racing age. Hardly sufficient time (or numbers) to brand him a failure at stud.

@@sandramarrujo5563 -THANK U!!!! Plus AP'S son isn't even 1 yr old yet 🐎👑

Sam Spade they hit the track in 2019. When you posted the comment, none of his foals were even racing yet

Because Secretariat was the best racehorse to ever live...

Justin. There’s no way to prove that

Madison Anderson Hell, Sham was better just unlucky

+Ad Astra When I visited--they were breeding (at Ashford) 4 times a day. then in June, some were shuttled down under. We asked the groom about paddock time/exercise---We were told, "The exercise they get is the walk to the breeding shed"

Secretariat sired 600

+brooke sonic That was in 16 seasons at stud. He was covering 35 - 40 mares a year, typical for that time. These days popular stallions cover 100 - 130 mares a year, even more for the studs who are shipped to the southern hemisphere for a second breeding season.

+Patricia Diers I agree.

I thought he was at Ashford not Coolmore like this video states. . Bred 2-3 times a day is not bad.

Snowy_ Productions they said no other horse has won the grand slam (triple crown and breeders cup classic in the same year)

Incorrect. The Jockey club only recognizes "live cover" so he'll service 100 mares or more

Kevin Howard and what’s wrong with that? He’s been treated like a king his entire life, and gets to continue that

Henry Wieneke why are you so hateful? You must be a mean person dead inside.

Fake triple crown winner? That's not even a thing. Why do you wish ill upon an animal? He's a HORSE that did absolutely nothing to provoke you.