😮 such a wonderful experience. Good for you‼️👏🏼

Love it

You are so lucky, he new what you were thinking, and he gave you a pose , from all the stories of the people who new him that’s what he was like. You have something special from him only a few people had thank you for sharing your memory.

yes he did something im a pacing guy i found a mare in a farmers field red and big like him she had papers was 4 never raced paacing bred i trained her down got her racing she won 20 races in 3 years over 100 grand i paid 400 dollars ya maybe he had something to do with my luck 3

He was the KING

Big Red,Americas horse!!! GOAT!! I can make through the first two but Belmont always chokes me up.I was a teenager when he won the triple crown.My mom was a bookie so we had to watch it,I’m glad we did

Watching with excitement and tears rolling. He was ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Isn't it funny , I was never a horse race fan as a kid , but as a 64 yr old watching big reds races , I keep getting emotional and tears flow.

Frankel was a great racehorse, but there's only one secretariat.

A wonderful memory for you. 😊

I’m reading a book about him and going through a box of tissues‼️❤️😆

yes me too he was amazing

I've never seen a horse race so close to the rail as Secretariat. It's like he knew that was the fastest line.

He is a tremendous machine! Love him!

Oh my gosh and to witness that spectacular finish you are truly blessed for that. Thank you for sharing

with the weather his nostril's were flaring and chugging like a locomotive brought tears to my eyes.

He beat the top grass horse in North America, Tentam, in the Man O' War Stakes on the turf and I believe won in record time. Secretariat toyed with Tentam like a cat with a mouse. Ron Turcotte, who should know, said Secretariat was better on the grass than he was on the dirt.

No other horse has come close to Secretariat in the last fifty plus years nor will there ever be in the years to come. He was a magnificent beast.

Secretariat could and would run on anything, he was a once in a lifetime kind of Horse, and if I live for another 70 years, I still won't see another like Big Red. He was the best of all time, glad he came along during our lifetime, we were graced with the privilege of watching him run, remember it like it was yesterday, it will never be replicated.

Agreed. Kennedy Road’s jockey tried the same tactic that Pincay tried - he tried to run Big Red into the ground and got run into the ground.

I don't know about that. The Great Sham was just as fast. He busted out his two front teeth coming out of the gate at the derby and ran the entire race with swollen nasal passages from the blow and Secretariat couldn't shake him. I believe The Great Sham would have beaten him. Unfortunately, we will never know how the Belmont would have turned out if Sham had not have been running with a hairline fracture in his left front lower leg. You can actually see his legs splay just a fraction of a second before Secretariat pulled away. He was every bit as good as Secretariat. Just bad luck.

@@JackelinHyde 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@rossogden9920 What's so funny?

@@JackelinHydewhat excuse do you have for Sham in the Preakness? Three races, three losses. Fractured a leg trying to push Secretariat at Belmont. I understand how good the stats are for Sham. I’ve always found it interesting that the two largest hearts ever measured in horses were Secretariat followed by Sham. Just the way they finished all three races against each other. By any measure, I just can’t see how Sham was every bit as good as Secretariat. Three races three loses doesn’t equate to “every bit as good”.

@JackelinHyde Sorry, I love Sham. He was a great horse, and a worthy opponent. But I have never bought the bit about the hairline fracture in the Belmont. Based on how those two were running, Sham would not have finished the race and in fact would probably have pulled a Barbaro (crosses self) if anything had cracked during that stretch run. Sham had great early speed, and he also surpassed Northern Dancer's 9-year record in the Derby. I think Team Sham formulated a strategy based on the horses' performance in the Preakness, figuring that the smaller the field, the more likely Secretariat was to go to the front immediately and burn himself out (cf Smarty Jones in the Belmont, where Jerry Bailey and Russell Baze sacrificed their own horses to deny Smarty the Triple Crown) (Yes. I'm still bitter. I lost 20 bucks!). Laffit Pincay is clearly holding Sham's head during the stretch duel, while Turcotte has been ordered to let his steed decide how he wants to run. When Secretariat simply left Sham instead of collapsing, Pincay implemented part B of the plan, feign injury and let Sham valiantly finish last. That preserved Sham's value as a stud. What they hadn't counted on was the massive, literal mutant engine pounding inside Big Red's oversized chest. Both Sham and Secretariat were maternal grandson of Princequillo, who brought the largest of the large X Factor hearts to America. That day at the Belmont, the two largest thoroughbred hearts on record went beat to beat, and the 22 pounder won over the 18 pounder.

At the beginning it was like he's thinking, "This is a track?! I should be eating this track!" Then as he went by the stands he seemed to get his footing and say, "Yeah, ok, I guess I can run on this!" The stride suddenly lengthened. He went from looking like a horse running to looking like one leaping again and again and again, Superman swooping low across the turf. "Well sorry... what did they say your name was...?! Oh right! Kennedy Road. Byeeeee!" *VOOM* Kudos for the music choice and editing. As if this race needed any more drama, with Ron projecting himself into Eddie Maple's saddle and Arcaro's expert, unabashed fandom of the big red locomotive barreling down the stretch, vanishing into silhouette against the lights, the ecstatic crowd, the epic race call... a fitting end to SecretariGOAT's career!

@@Postinaway Another jockey who raced against Big Red said when Secretariat passed by him he thought the number on his jersey was going to be ripped off by the power of this horse! Unimaginable.

But shorter than Man O War's.

@@HeyJoeGFY That's unclear. Man o' War's stride, as measured from actual hoofprints on the track in the Lawrence Realization Stakes, was 24 feet 8 inches. Secretariat's stride, as measured in the final furlong and a half of The Marlboro Cup, was 25 feet 4 inches.

Not doubt, with ease…

Perfectly said

ya soory to here i bought a chesnut pacing breed from a farmer up.north i was buying hay from for 400 dollars she was 5 had papers so i trained her down raced her b at 6 first start she won. went on to win 21 races for me over 100 g.s all because of secretariat she looked alot like him

@@brianlamarche6901 We both have great memories to look back on ! :)

His heart weighed 22 pounds, twice the weight of a normal horse heart.

Yeah.

It’s incredible .. he always starts in such a lacking position … but gains so much speed and leaves everyone so far behind like he’s floating on air. The beginning is just the warm up to him , by the time everyone else has worn out

Secretariat was the race horse god built to make our dreams come true!

@@marianneperez6767 well said lol.

Roids are amazing.

He wasn’t on them.

Maples said when that happened, Secretariat just took off, no warning, just took off, like you want to play like that....?

ya the fractions killed him..if he sat back.he was second best kennedy road

rider was avelino gomez .past Way in a accidentbriding a year laterv

@@brianlamarche6901 are u saying the rider for the other horse passed away in an accident riding a year later after this race?

@@hollywoodpineapple8337 yes maybe a few more not exactly sure of daten

no freak just an amazing athlete sent by god for all humans to realize horses have souls and feelings like us humans when he stopped in the walking ring and looked at me he was telling me something he knew i was there to watch him run and admire his great looks he was kinda telling me he.knows i was there to cheer him.on

That was why I said he must have been thinking, "I should be eating this track!"😅

Actually it wasn’t the first time he ran on grass. He ran once before in The Man O’War Stakes at Belmont Park and won that.

@ianarnett I looked it up, and you are absolutely right! I stand corrected, thanks for replying!

Only 3 yr olds race in the triple crown races

@@AntonIrons I did not know that thank you

The more we watch him, the younger we get in spirit!

Secretariat went 2:41 4/5. The race at Woodbine was 1 5/8 miles long, longer than the Belmont Stakes 1 1/2 miles in which he ran 2:24 flat.

Apparently Kennedy Road’s jockey and trainer didn’t get the memo after the Belmont. They tried to run Big Red into the ground and like Sham, they run over instead.

I don’t really think Kennedy Road stood a chance anyway, but that was a bad race strategy on his part, especially after watching what Secretariat did to Sham and the rest of the field in the Belmont, when Pincay took off with that crazy pace, trying to run him into the ground. Secretariat only ran a couple of races on turf but there was no reason to think he couldn’t handle the track.

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It's the kind of music that exudes something powerful, is on its way!! Love the ending....

Absolutely great music!

It's Protectors of the Earth by Two Steps from Hell. In particular, it's written by Thomas Bergersen. He's one of the most talented current composers in the world. If you don't like his music, you just have horrible taste.

​@@rainman6090That may be true but it doesn't belong in this video.

@@ediebritt111 It's epic music for an epic moment. How does it not belong?

Wrong. Stop trolling. You never saw MOW race because there is NO film of him running except against an over-the-hill Sir Barton. Secretariat was a genetic freak and way better than MOW.

Wrong again. Another troll.