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SECRETARIAT ❤️ EDDIE RON .KENTUCKY DERBY 1973🏆
25/03/2025

SECRETARIAT ❤️ EDDIE
RON .
KENTUCKY DERBY 1973🏆

Secretariat with his beloved groom, the great Eddie Sweat. Two of the greatest in the world of horse racing! ❤️
25/03/2025

Secretariat with his beloved groom, the great Eddie Sweat. Two of the greatest in the world of horse racing! ❤️

NORTHERN DANCER 🏆
25/03/2025

NORTHERN DANCER 🏆

This was from the Chicago Tribune. If you look at the top long picture close, you will see Secretariat on the right side...
25/03/2025

This was from the Chicago Tribune.
If you look at the top long picture close, you will see Secretariat on the right side. Follow that long white rail to the opposite side of the page and you will see the closest horse to him. And the picture of Penny says it ALL !!

SECRETARIAT AND SHAMKENTUCKY DERBY 🏆
25/03/2025

SECRETARIAT AND SHAM
KENTUCKY DERBY 🏆

SECRETARIAT 🇺🇲
25/03/2025

SECRETARIAT 🇺🇲

BARBARO ❤️
25/03/2025

BARBARO ❤️

SECRETARIAT ❤️ “He should never have been beaten. Make no mistake, my friends. He was the greatest racehorse who ever li...
25/03/2025

SECRETARIAT ❤️
“He should never have been beaten. Make no mistake, my friends. He was the greatest racehorse who ever lived, and I was the luckiest guy in the world to be on his back.”
~Ron Turcotte

Phar Lap, one of the greatest the world has ever witnessed.
25/03/2025

Phar Lap, one of the greatest the world has ever witnessed.

RUFFIAN ❤️ That feeling was fear: fear the filly was just too fast, that she couldn’t go on like this, that she would us...
25/03/2025

RUFFIAN ❤️
That feeling was fear: fear the filly was just too fast, that she couldn’t go on like this, that she would use herself too much. It was a fear that everyone on the backstretch understood. When a horse came along with speed like Ruffian’s, pure, effortless, unearthly speed, they asked themselves: was it a gift from God or something terrible will happen?

SECRETARIATA LONG LASTING MOMENT FOREVER FROZEN IN TIME~2:24Secretariat raced into immortality in the 1973 Belmont Stake...
25/03/2025

SECRETARIAT
A LONG LASTING MOMENT FOREVER FROZEN IN TIME~2:24
Secretariat raced into immortality in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. His victory, by one of the widest margins in the history of the American turf-31 lengths ahead of his nearest challenger and in a worldrecord time of 2:24 for the 1 1/2-mile distance - remains one of the most memorable in sports history.
Secretariat ran more powerfully than one could ever imagine. To feel the glory of Secretariat's Belmont is to be flooded with emotion after seeing something of true wonder.
On June 9, 1973, Secretariat broke from the inside post in the third leg of the Triple Crown and went to the front from the start. He was challenged by old rival Sham into the first turn, around the long first turn, and into the backstretch. The two were flying on the front end, ripping off blazing fractions. The pace was too much for Sham, but only seemed to energize Secretariat.
As Secretariat rounded the sweeping Belmont far turn he seemed to be on cruise control, with jockey Ron Turcotte just steering. Secretariat's lead widened from seven lengths to 20 lengths on that turn.
On to the wire, Turcotte did not ease the horse, but let him run on. On any other day, the rider would have been pulling the horse up through the lane, saving something for another day. But this was the day. Secretariat was no longer racing against the others. He was racing against only himself and history. The margin kept widening, and widening, and widening.
And then it was over.
The moment froze. What we are left with are fleeting glimpses — a blazing pace, a huge running machine, a visual roar of acceleration, an ever-widening margin, the coat darkening, a white v***r of feet, a jockey sitting chilly, a horse alone — and one long-lasting moment frozen in memory. What we witnessed. The champion's charisma. A feeling. An emotion. A ripple of goose bumps.
A moment of greatness.

TORONTO, Oct. 28 1973—Secretariat closed out a glorious career in spectacular style today, winning the Canadian Internat...
25/03/2025

TORONTO, Oct. 28 1973—Secretariat closed out a glorious career in spectacular style today, winning the Canadian International Championship by 6½ lengths at Woodbine race track.

With Eddie Maple substituting in the irons for Ron Turcotte, the mighty Triple Crown winner thudded through the gloom and wind‐whipped mist at a winning rate of $1,162.50 per lovely foot. His accrued total for the mile and five‐eighths brought $92,775 to Mrs. Helen (Penny) Tweedy's Meadows Stable and raised Secretariat's lifetime earnings to $1,316,808.
Secretariat's backers collected a surprising $2.40 for each $2 wager, though many of the tickets bought by the crowd of 35,117 will never be cashed. They will be stashed away with the other souvenirs of a horse‐conscious cult that has been offered lithographs ($325), full‐color action photos ($6), and even T‐shirts ($6).
Only Kennedy Road dared challenge the Bold Ruler c**t in a 12‐horse race that started on the backstretch, passed before the stands and then circled an inner track. Secretariat lolled off Kennedy Road's starboard stern, his 25‐foot stride eating away slowly at the leader's margin.
Then, on the backstretch of the inner track, three‐eighths of a mile from home, Maple let Super Red have his race. His noble head bobbing like a well‐tuned piston, his blazing red chestnut coat only a smudge in the glare, Secretariat widened the margin and brought home the Canadian bacon.
Maple later disclosed that Kennedy Road had brushed Secretariat as the gap was closed and the angered Super Red took off.
Flashbulbs lighted the stretch of Edward Plunkett Taylor's playpen, 15 miles from downtown Toronto, and few of the delighted fans even noticed that Big Spruce had finished second, Golden Don third, nearly two more lengths back, followed by Presidial.
As Maple pointed his valuable charge (worth $50,666.66 a pound under his $6.08 million syndication) back to the winner's circle, many of the youngsters in the crowd leaped over the barricades and charged the track. The tote board's flashing of the fractional times (24 seconds, 47‐2/5, 1:11‐3/5, 1:37‐2/5 and 2:41‐4/5—four‐fifths off the track record) provided the only available light.
Secretariat's smashing victory salvaged the weekend for his trainer, Lucien Laurin, and Mrs. Tweedy, who saw Maple ride Riva Ridge into dismal defeat only 24 hours earlier at Aqueduct.
Was this Secretariat's last race?
“Yes sir,” said a relieved Laurin after the race. Then he added, “Yes, Sir,” with emphasis.
“We could never go through all that again,” said Mrs. Tweedy.
They were relieved that Maple had vindicated their choice of a jockey after Ron Turcotte was suspended for five days. Turcotte had been aboard Super Red for his 15 previous victories in 20 starts.
The race was handpicked for Secretariat, who carried only 117 pounds under the European scale utilized here. It was, on grass, a furlong longer than the Man o' War, in which Secretariat had set a course record, and Laurin, Turcotte and Mrs. Tweedy sat hunched in a black limousine after Super Red's super workout on Thursday and said, “It's a go.”
Woodbine was chosen because Laurin and Turcotte are both Canadian‐born. Also, it's about 200 miles from the old Kenilworth Park where mighty Man o' War ran his last race. Big Red won by seven lengths and returned $2.20 in a big minus pool.
And so it's on to Belmont for Secretariat for a breather before he starts a new career for love and money on behalf of the investors who put up $190,000 a share for the 32 parts of his big, beautiful red body.

Few grooms are fortunate enough to have one famous horse in a lifetime; in Riva Ridge and Secretariat, Eddie Sweat groom...
25/03/2025

Few grooms are fortunate enough to have one famous horse in a lifetime; in Riva Ridge and Secretariat, Eddie Sweat groomed two.
During the peak of the latter’s Triple Crown fame, Eddie made television appearances, graced the covers of Ebony and Jet magazines, and was later immortalized in Ed Bogucki’s bronze Secretariat statue at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington—a work of art that partly inspired Scanlan’s book.
And yet, what money and accolades Eddie acquired quickly came and went. According to his friends and family, the groom was unfailingly generous, known not only for loaning money to those in need, but for using his influence to help secure good-paying racetrack jobs for relatives. But Eddie never forgot the role imposed on him by his era, race, and station.
“He grew up a black man at a time when hired help didn’t look [their employers] in the eye,” Scanlan says. “So, when [Owner] Penny Chenery would be talking to him, he was all, ‘Oh, yes, ma’am. No, ma’am.’ He was [even] offered work as a trainer later in life, and I guess he didn’t have the confidence. [Eddie] just said, ‘I’m a groom. That’s what I set out to be, and [that’s what] I will continue to be.’”
It’s one of many ways that The Horse God Built doesn’t shy away from the harsher realities of life on the track. In it, Scanlan includes a line from Anthony J. Schefstad’s 1995 University of Maryland Ph.D. thesis, in which the writer equates a groom’s life on the backstretch to “the last operating serfdoms in the United States.”

Barbaro schools with track pony and trainer Michael Matz
25/03/2025

Barbaro schools with track pony and trainer Michael Matz

JUSTIFY 🏆 LAST TRIPLE CROWN WINNER ❤️
25/03/2025

JUSTIFY 🏆
LAST TRIPLE CROWN WINNER ❤️

SEABISCUIT ❤️ “You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn’t. He fixed us. Every ...
25/03/2025

SEABISCUIT ❤️
“You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn’t. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.”

Champion racehorse and sire Northern Dancer 💥
25/03/2025

Champion racehorse and sire Northern Dancer 💥

From cnn.Very few horses, past or present, can ever compare to Secretariat.Not only was the giant chestnut blessed with ...
25/03/2025

From cnn.Very few horses, past or present, can ever compare to Secretariat.
Not only was the giant chestnut blessed with good looks but he also possessed an astonishing and unrivaled turn of foot.
The celebrated c**t -- known as Big Red -- established himself as arguably the greatest American thoroughbred ever to have lived.
He became the first horse for 25 years to win the Triple Crown when he landed the big three of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in 1973 -- the first to do so on television -- and set speed records at all three races along the way.
Riding him was like flying a fighter jet compared to an ordinary airplane, Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte told Aly Vance for CNN's Winning Post.
The legendary race horse sealed the Triple Crown with a remarkable 31-length victory at Belmont Park -- to some it's still the greatest achievement in the history of the sport. He simply left his opponents in the dust.
The records were no surprise. After the Belmont he was due to have a rest until August so I let him run faster, added Turcotte.
I never expected him to go so fast. I told the trainer that if he didn't win the Triple Crown then I would retire. That's how sure I was that he was going to win.
It wasn't only Turcotte that Secretariat was carrying through his record-breaking career. His stylish performances captured the imagination of an adoring public across the world.
Wherever he raced, his fans would follow.
The public just couldn't get enough of him. He brought racing back to where it was in the golden era, said Turcotte, who now lives in New Brunswick, Canada.
People just loved him. Even today,
years later, I still get mail every week.
But the pressure of riding such a favorite never got to Turcotte. The Canadian felt at one with his partner and believed he was unbeatable when the preparation had gone well.
Whenever he was right before a race I knew he would win. I knew I was on the best horse, he said. I only felt pressure when I didn't think he should run.
While many could only dream of riding such a special horse, Turcotte was lucky enough to do so throughout his career.
I'd never been on a horse that could do what he could do, said Turcotte. He had a great turn of foot whenever I asked him.
From whatever position I was in during a race, I would just put my hand down and he'd lower and gallop and quicken.
Turcotte knew he had something special on his hands after the very first meeting with his dream horse in 1972.
Initially at the yard to ride a stablemate of the wonder horse, trainer Lucien Laurin persuaded Turcotte to saddle up a young and inexperienced c**t by the name of Secretariat.
He was a beautiful horse to be around, like an overgrown kid -- very kind, gentle, said Turcotte. He'd do anything you asked him to do. He was very, very smart.
He was mature beyond his years mentally but physically he was a bit awkward when he was young. A bit gangly.
Laurin and Turcotte worked with the chestnut two-year-old throughout the following winter, seeing enough to convince them both of his potential.
He was beating the other horses and was very promising, added the jockey. I started riding him right from the start which was unusual as usually I would only ride the horses that were racing.
The rest, as they say, is history. The two-time Horse of the Year broke course speed records almost everywhere he raced -- his record in the Kentucky Derby (1:59.2/5) still stands today.
Fittingly, his immortal legacy was cemented in 2010 when Walt Disney produced a film based on his impossible true life.
Following his death in 1989, at the age of 19, the secret behind Secretariat's success finally became clear. An autopsy revealed his heart was more than two times the size of an average equine heart.
The fact that he won on turf as well as dirt is another reason why he's the greatest. He was so versatile, argued Turcotte, who also rode champion horses such as Damascus and Northern Dancer.
I might be prejudiced but I don't believe there's a horse that has or can do what he did.Turcotte is now the only surviving connection to Secretariat but still receives fan mail to this day -- demonstrating a power the horse had in reconnecting the public with the racing industry.

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