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- The Lead-Up
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- Pulling Away
- Down The Stretch
- After The Wire
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The Triple Crown has been won only 13 times in all, with the first coming in 1919,and its history is marked by long droughts — decades in some cases. By the time the 1973 season arrived, horse racing had not had a Triple Crown champion since Citation in 1948. Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, each by 2 1/2 lengths over Sham, and...
Turcotte figured he would take Secretariat out to the lead and that Pincay and Sham would try to keep up given their spirited races earlier that season. The two horses separated from the rest of the pack, and Turcotte took Secretariat inside without much worry when Sham passed by. “It looked like a match race, and it was kind of a match race,” Turc...
Halfway through the race, it was over. Secretariat had run the fastest 3/4-mile in Belmont history in just under 70 seconds. By the time he pulled 10 lengths ahead of Sham, the camera had to pan out to show how massive the lead was. “Secretariat is widening now!” track announcer Chic Anderson said during one of the most memorable race calls in hist...
Secretariat made the final turn around the corner toward the Belmont grandstand all alone, and Turcotte finally saw the crowd making the same movements as he was on the horse. “A lot of people were jumping up and down,” he said. “Once I got closer, I could hear a lot of them cheering me on. It was something that you don’t see every day.” As Anderso...
Secretariat galloped so nicely after the wire that Turcotte thought he would’ve also broken the record for the fastest 1 5/8-mile. “I still had a lot of horse when I passed the wire,” Turcotte said. “He was not tired.” Turcotte’s only regret was not taking Secretariat past the grandstand so the adoring crowd could see him up close — much slower tha...
Secretariat’s first quarter-mile was :23 3/5 seconds, the half-mile in :46 1/5, 3/4 of a mile in 1:09 4/5, the mile in 1:34 4/5, 1 1/4 mile in 1:59 and the final time was of course 2:24 — all records for the Belmont Stakes. “I don’t think there’s any other horse who’s ever run a race would have beaten him at that moment, at that day, on that track,...
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Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators. His winning time of 2 minutes and 24 seconds still stands as the American record for a mile and a half on dirt.
When Secretariat won the Belmont, he did more than become the first horse since Citation to win the Triple Crown. He turned in the single greatest performance in the history of horse racing. After the Belmont, Secretariat raced nine more times, winning six, coming in second twice and third once.
Jun 10, 2023 · Victor J. Blue for The New York Times. In the Derby, Secretariat broke a step slow, but Turcotte, unworried, let the colt find his legs and run his race. At the top of the stretch, Turcotte asked...
Jun 7, 2023 · His victory came by a record 31 lengths over the second-place finisher and in a record time of 2 minutes, 24 seconds to complete the 1 1/2-mile race and claim the Triple Crown. “He was the type of...
