SECRETARIAT - Full Documentary

Hi, I'm Chris Fowler from Sportscentury Secretary. He came to us as a shining example of aristocracy, big, handsome and

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of energy. He walked with style, stood tall and displayed the best manners in the role. He wasn't perfect, he lost 5 of his 21 runs as if. Saying that I am just a human being, but to the eye he was perfection itself and when he performed he took our breath away, but some may wonder how he could have been chosen among the 50 greatest athletes of the 20th century. The answer is because he was more than the Secretariat. a horse had a kind of princely quality physically mentally he had the temperament he had the physique in the heart he had brilliant speed great endurance the girths made by Sadler's did not fit him those special ones made to sink that big belly the experts say he was the perfect horse in As far as you could look at the secretary you knew he was something special besides being an extraordinarily good runner he had a very imperious look he had a big shiny copper coat on him when the sun's rays hit him it was a beautiful thing to say the way God intended to make a horse you can't anticipate greatness you can't really define it I guess it's something that God occasionally notices in someone and because it comes from God the gift can't be ignored and it can't be defeated and great athletes use it even if they're not humans despite the universal praise that was ultimately lavished on this one-in-a-million horse on which he began his career. without fanfare on July 4, 1972, while his trainer Lucien Laurin watched from the owners box, he made his debut as tutor at Aqueduct and unfortunately had some knocks probably in the opening game the rider did a terrible job he hadn't been in forever there was problems, I mean, he was, you know, he never had a chance to race and everyone saw him on the outside, it's Quebec sixth, followed by the Royal fleet, seventh version, it's eight, jaco, on the inside, the

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Lucien got up and the chair on the other side of the box said damn she should never be beaten and that's when I knew Lucien thought we had a really good horse. The Secretariat chief's problem in his life was that he was managed by people, even managed by someone other than defective human beings, after which he would have been undefeated. Finishing fourth in his very humane debut, Secretariat won his next two races, the second under new jockey Ron Turcotte, but it wasn't until the Sandford Stakes at Saratoga that the horse who would capture America's heart gave us a glimpse to the future.

He was sitting behind two horses. I started making my move because it was an opening and when two horses got back together they just bounced towards him and it's like nothing happened. He went ahead and won on his own, that was the beginning where he really impressed me. Ronnie Turcotte wins aboard Secretariat under the wire, the three-length winner separated himself from the rest of the crop quite effectively, especially his races at Saratoga that summer, as he was approaching his third start, so it was happening, I mean , so there was a lot said about this red horse that Lucien Laurin has and it could be something special.

He couldn't be in the middle of the track. The Secretariat moves hurriedly towards the leaders who descend to the top of the stage. The sunny South has the advantage of an Edgar. Secretary comes running outside towards the fray when Secretary made his move hoping it wasn't like any move I've ever seen a two year old make, it was the kind of move that just happens and takes your breath away. . that you could hear the collective gasp from the entire Saratoga stands, it was like, wow, you saw them straighten out in the stretch and Secretariat takes the lead for Q Lake, he circled the entire field at 22 and one for a quarter going around al turns around eight wide and you don't see any horses, but just a two-year-old, do that physically, he was mature for his age, he was clearly the dominant two-year-old in America, there was a sustained interest in Secretary and He was anticipated to be a Triple Crown potential for us early on for a two-year-old to become horse of the year.

He can't just be a really good two-year-old. He has to break the mold. He has to do something really sensational. and different secretary, he looks like a two-year-old boy who could become a super horse beyond his explosive acceleration and his haughty bearing. Secretary exudes an idatu mention that quickly earned him national fame. Secretary simply had a majestic way of standing before going out to train. and he looked like he was in charge, he was wonder

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y balanced and he had this deep red color and the interesting glow that the best thing about him was his eye, it was incredible, suddenly he was looking at these stands and he was gone.

He slowed down finally he stopped a little like he was saying a lot of things about that pretty girl in the stands every time he heard a camera it turned it stopped and it turned I once saw the secretary watch a plane fly over but I had never seen it before having that star quality, kind of like the movie stars who arrive on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, would look over and give you the perfunctory "it's good to see I have to go" instead of a supporting actor in the New York scene. he probably would have been an English stage actor playing Shakespeare if he could talk he would have been a son of a bitch because he was arrogant he was the heavyweight champion of the world what to do and he knew it that marquee quality sparked the interest of investors around the world racing world in early 1973, Secretariat's reading stock sold for a record total of six million dollars and then, after winning his first two starts of the year, the unexpected happened in his Kentucky Derby Tuna and Aqueduct the day before the Wood Memorial. /8 does three-eighths of a mile and I had to kick it to get it to work and I've never had to do that.

I told the foreman that something is wrong with this horse. I told him it would be better to have it checked and this word never came. returning to Lucien lon Ronnie said that the horse was behaving strangely at the gate and every time he pulled the reins he threw his head back that he had never done that and he couldn't understand it 70 Hertz not finishing a tango and in front he farce the outside and here's the final angle i held on to win him by the neck the angry big secretary finished third in a photo but i think turkette was paying too much attention to sham because he thought sham was the only horse they had to beat in the race and somehow way he allowed the angular light to pass him when the horses hit the illusion wire.

A recent loser to Secretariat couldn't understand him and he didn't know that he had won the corner light race at the Kentucky Derby just two weeks away. Questions arose about the cuts' true ability to guide Secretariat to victory in the first stage of the Triple Crown. I thought he misjudged her face, you know, and was too far behind, you know he can outrun her in the end, but it was too much. late I said, so you know, I just don't think Ronnie is the caliber competitor that we need to release and then I said no, I really think he'll be fine, I'll talk to him, we had a conversation and Roenick made a very emotional speech.

He didn't get me out of the gate, he knew he had made mistakes, but betting, if many didn't share Lauren's confidence in the rider, others began to wonder about the horse, this was after he was syndicated for six million dollars and people wondered. Did these people waste his money? Was he that good? He was not him? Aren't we going to have another failure in the Triple Crown Secretariat? He came to Kentucky with a lot of detractors. Suddenly, Lucien Laurin brings him to Louisville and there's this whole controversy. about the rumors that he might have been hurt at the Forest Memorial and Jimmy the Greek at the time was going around telling people the week of the Derby that the horse was lame, this horse was a great two year old, he was a horse from The year is two years old and now it comes here with the opportunity to be perhaps the biggest thing since Man-of-War, but you can't block out all these rumors and you wonder what's going to happen here today, but despite all the consequences Despite his poor performance in the Wood Memorial Secretary, he was a three-to-two favorite to win the biggest race of his young life, a record 134,000 hums of expectation.

This is Churchill Downs Louisville Kentucky on this first Saturday in May. 1973 I'm Jack Whitaker and this is the 99th running of the Kentucky Derby moments from the start Secretary is at the door Mike Gallant is moving Secretary tilts his head a little they are on the post on the rock all the leaves inside that light of Sangha 4 million broke the last and died the last after a quarter of a month and Fargo abroad the Secretary's novel in the spring mystery came here The Secretary really began to make his own decisions seemed to understand the races and seemed to understand wants to dictate his own strategy The Secretariat is in fourth place and moves out and comes in third place and the movie caught the leaders as they went far, they went out of the stretch there at the head of the statute Sam is the leader who leads, violates the Secretariat is In the middle of writing the record, he made this tremendous move and we knew we had seen something had started and maybe we were going to have a great Triple Crown winner.

Now there is a stretch where former secretary Khalid Sham is in second place. The secretary who moved in didn't like having all the bags and she hit him a couple of times and just left. I just left my cane and he wouldn't buy two and a half, he very easily he got stuck on the outside. Our native secretary simply broke down. The people who recorded the Kentucky Derby record were looking at the board. He ran the final quarter mile in 23 seconds, which is unprecedented in the derby. The secretary did something no horse ever did. He was faster in each of the five quarters.

It just defies logic. Another quarter mile he could. He took to the air and flew, which is obviously what was in his blood as the first horse to run the mile and a quarter Derby in under two minutes. Secretariat turned what had been trepidation in Louisville into confidence in Baltimore, he went as a three to ten favorite in the Preakness the Triple Crowns turned strongly in the second stage well, it's almost ready the horse is about to enter the gate At the start the weather is perfect and we are just waiting for an excellent horse racing secretary to continue racing with an explosive style and the centripetal force would extend a lot in the corners and Pimlico is considered to have tighter corners, that was what I worried.

Deadly dream on the outside, he helped Taj and then he's also twisting on the outside in the Preakness, he broke last again and now he's going. to the curve you think it's going to be the same as the derby so our native and Secretariat laugh again as they move towards the first curve Turcotte grabbed him and made an almost imperceptible gesture with his hands like a man adjusting his Cuff took the worst from the outside, anyone shit, went from last to first in about 180 yards under an easy hole right now, but here comes Secretary, he's moving fast and going to the outside, he's going for the lead and it's right, Valley is looking .

He just sped up and went around the field and I was like, Oh my God, what is Turcotte thinking? I mean, his horse is cooked because he never saw a horse make moves like that, especially the first time, he was too early. For it to have been used strategically, Ronnie would not have asked him to run, that early in the race had to be what the horse wanted to do. Secretary holding him for a length and a half here comes the charade second on the outside now Secretary the leader like this, I've got Jam moving into second place once I slowed you down there and I just left him on the rail, I just let go of his head and you went back to Cal from all over the south, you know, we just opened by ourselves, you know, I kept thinking about Belmar Secretariat down two lanes driving second, there's Fort Kim Chi, it's going to my head, it's been running away, it's been in another level of consciousness in the public eye, there were actually children standing on the railing when he passed this horse. he captured the public, not just a racing crowd.

Secretariat did it again today, winning the Pimlico Preakness and is now 2/3 of the way to the Triple Crown. Expectations were very high for any horse, not just Secretariat, to win the Triple Crown after 25 years. In mention, he had won it in 1948, there were many very good horses that had tried to win and failed. Winning the Triple Crown seemed almost impossible, it was equivalent to 400 hitters in baseball or DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, this was something. that most Americans had finally come to the conclusion that it will never happen again, no one will win the Triple Crown again Terry, his run into history transcended a divided nation, the fate of the Americans didn't feel very good about us themselves because it was Watergate, it was Vietnam, ourpsyche was a little bruised at that time and this horse was our great encouragement and for all of us the cover of Time magazine was Secretariat during Watergate and I think the country loved it because the Secretary was a real hero, we always beat the sports heroes , that takes our mind away.

Among other things, the Secretariat gave people a kind of scandal-proof celebrity to look at and enjoy without the residue of messy politics. It's the only honest thing in the country at the time, as a huge, magnificent animal that wasn't involved in a scandal was. He wasn't tied to money, he simply raced because he loved to race, not since Man O'War in 1920 had a horse so captivated a nation, now favorites one to ten had the chance to succeed where seven horses had failed since 1948 to win the Belmont Stakes after winning the first two legs of the Triple Crown, it was impossible for the event to create the enthusiasm that Secretariat did because television was in its infancy at the time, but Secretariat was in a national occupation because everyone had seen in color. on television and theHe was truly the first equine hero of the media age.

He had appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated Time Newsweek. We were all under a lot of pressure. You talk about attention when you're on the cover of three national magazines. It was truly a hellish week. It could happen every day and it was really terribly exhausting. I would like to do it again. There were a lot of cameras and a lot of people, interviewers and writers and all that, and they kept sticking microphones on my page and asking me if I was nervous and, wow, I was nervous, so it wouldn't have been normal. We had an overwhelming request for credentials.

People who had never seen a horse race and who were in the newspaper business wanted to come up and see this horse. It was truly a frenzy of interest on June 9, the day of reckoning becoming bright and clear at press time, millions of Secretariat fans had put their money where their hearts work, some for the first time in their lives. Before the 70,000 that overflowed the stands, some had been on the track. since the sun rose I was there at 6 in the morning I was there all night and I fell asleep he starts climbing the tree next to his barn the fittest horse I have ever seen his eyes were big like saucers his nostrils They were dilated, he was neighing his ears.

When he played, his muscles rippled and he walked with his legs open and he always thought, boy, what are we going to see today? Before the race, not only could you see what Secretariat meant to a really tough veteran, you know, going over a guy. with a heart attack for sure and staying outside at the window is better, but also with people who are on that court who were not players who were the children because we, the secretary, these were the people who Shores all wanted to see Molly when Doing it in that way would be really overbearing.

I'm looking at it. I don't think I've ever seen him walk like that before. He looks like the execution man. He goes to the gallows. He is about to dispatch on the railing. And farce had been such a tough competitor. for him in the first two races he wondered with this farcical day finally B, my instructions were to be very close to Secretary from the beginning and now it is a farce, the trailer is private, I simply felt like racing, that was the day in that felt great, I said just leave him alone, I said, just take the long world and let him run his own race Ron Turcotte, he let him run, come on, let's see what he's got, you've done the Derby, you've done the Preakness, come on, Let's see how it goes.

How good can this guy be? I looked at the ticker and saw that the horse had gone 3/4 mile at 109 and 2, which is the fastest 3/4 mile ever run in the Belmont Stakes and is leaving the charade at At this point, he is running and running and with money and I turned to the guy next to me and told him I lost my horse and I'm thinking he's gone crazy and I'm saying I'm cursing under my breath, what are you doing? you're doing it you know you're going to kill the horse you're going to lose the Triple Crown you don't know how fast you're going no one knew that was going to happen uh neither the rider nor the trainer nor the owner I think It's probably not the horse, and it still has a quarter mile to go and I'm thinking to myself that he's going to completely collapse on the stretch, he can't keep going like this and I'm asking other guys that are on the track what are you thinking and everyone thinks that a man is it going too fast?

Lu, she told me, oh my God, run, just don't go on, don't go on, finally, after I turned home, my curiosity got the best of me. I had to turn. around when I looked at it I was scared I believed in Pegasus that day because I saw maybe I never saw something like that in my life 31 lengths I mean, if it's a thought of what I want to say, it's incredible, it's probably like they were running In two different race tracks it was like the Lord was holding the reins. The Secretariat was one of his creatures and it is possible that it was whispered to him a long time ago and that was when it really was an almost supernatural experience.

I really jumped out of my chair at Belmont. Park yells that we'll never see this again and I get to the elevator to go down to the winner's circle and I'm standing next to Pete Axton and he said: I used to think the Ali-Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden was the best I've ever seen in my life, this was even bigger, everyone was speechless and then when I was saying that people were crying, like you saw people crying at this event, I mean, it was so overwhelming that these students found the railing. , this sounds difficult to understand.

I believe it, but I swear half of them were crying as I walked by the day Secretariat won the Belmont. I went back to the barn with him and he was standing outside, there was a mole, probably thirty-fifty people there and they were giving him the saliva test. and I remember a woman saying that she was treating him like another horse. Jack Nicklaus once called me and told me that you were at the Belmont and you saw that race and I said yes and he said I was alone in my living room watching and as he went down the straight away, I clapped and cried and Heywood told him in a brilliant moment of Epiphany and in sight said Jack, don't you understand?

He said that all your life in your game you have been striving for perfection. and he said at the end of the Belmont you saw it, a lot of people bought mutual tickets, I'm a secretary at the Belen, they never charged, that was going to be his memory because when you're in the presence of something wonderful, something like a piece of glitter falls on you and you have it, you have that ticket, part of Secretary's glory is with you, you didn't care about the ticket, when you broke a record, normally you should buy a fifth of a second, he didn't. two seconds maybe two and a fifth off the track record and I won by 31 lengths.

There is no horse in the history of horse racing that could have beaten Secretary that day. I was so devastating it was like the 29 foot jump. Like Tiger Woods at the Masters, his performance is right up there with Wilt Chamberlain and Donna Larsen. You're not supposed to win majors by a dozen strokes, you're not supposed to score a hundred points, and you're not supposed to win the Belmont by 31 lengths in the desperate way that the losers were so beaten and abused by this horse that was the Confederate Army staggering home after Appomattox. I mean, these are all flowery, ridiculous things that you could say, hey, it's just a voice race.

I'm sorry. a horse was an athlete, a great horse would make the people around him into stars and that was certainly the case with Secretary. This is more than the story of a single horse race or the story of the great American horse as an athlete. This is just what we founded one of the great American teams. The team leader was Penny Chenery Tweety in 1971 with her father, a victim of Alzheimer's disease. Penny left her comfortable life in Denver and traveled to the East Coast in hopes of saving her family horse farm. We pay our bills. but we weren't making much money my brother the economist said you know I really don't think we can go on like this dad doesn't know anymore and we should sell the horses and the farm and invest that money in stocks The market that came with the hope of Meadows Table broke loose in 1972 when one of his horses, Riva Ridge, won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes again.

It was a great movie script to have Riva Ridge actually be the manager of his old lord's farm. Gentry told me after 1972, well, I'm sorry, Heywood, from your Tweety, next year it hit me, you had all that excitement with Reba next year, you got nothing and of course nothing. It was Penny's greatest contribution to the Secretariat if it weren't for Penny. Chenery, I think Secretariat would have been as famous and popular as a racehorse, but I don't think we would have remembered him in such a satisfying way. Penny was the perfect owner for Secretary. She was an attractive, intelligent, kind woman, and I think because of Probably many of the women in America really became interested in Secretary perhaps more than they would have been if there had been a male honor.

I hope I have been a role model for women, but she was never italicized in my game plan. It turns out that she was a woman after taking control of Meadows Table. Penny looked for a coach she could believe in pollution. Lauren was about to retire when Penny Chenery approached her and she thought Roger Lora and his son would train and he got another offer. He left and I told him what I'm going to do and he said, well, my dad's retired, but you know, I think he'd help you out for a while. Lucien Laurin was very confident in his own abilities and did not allow the media or anyone else to do so.

I question it and I think that kind of confidence is very important, otherwise the grind of going through a Triple Crown could have caused a lesser trainer to self-destruct, obviously it worked out very well because he won five of six consecutive Triple Crowns. racing Lauren's selection of Ron Turcotte to ride Secretariat had its own special logic, as the trainer, the jockey, came from similar routes and difficulties as a French Canadian, grew up as a lumberjack, worked in the forest in Canada and was not the type of hockey To get out and give sound bites, he got out and rode his horse as hard as he could.

I think Ron was just perfect for that whole Secretariat team. He may have been a jockey who was more outgoing and demanded to be the center of attention more and more. all that might have altered that chemistry a little bit what worked with Roni was Secretary is that ronnie came to trust the horse, the rider couldn't do much to change him, there was no particular need, the biggest thing you can do. What I say about riding a super horse is that he didn't screw it up, he bit the horse, the horse ran for him, but this is a horse that would have run for almost anyone in 1977.

Lucien Laurin was inducted into the Hall of Fame of horse racing. Turcotte was less fortunate; his racing career ended in 1978 when an accident on the track paralyzed him for life. He didn't mind when he was paralyzed from that accident and just accepted it and a lot of people would have said why me, Ronnie. he took the why not me attitude and eventually came back into his life. I think Lucien Laurin and Ron Turcotte were always ranked at the top of their professions as trainers and jockeys, but being associated with Secretariat has really given them a special place as a national icon.

Secretariat was asked to execute an even faster trend, celebrity steaks newly signed to a contract by the William Morris Agency, shared the same talent table with Sophia Loren and Elvis President, we saw the value of Secretary , which was all sorts of sex education, and yet, He was an incredible boss, we felt like we could do a lot of deals for Caesars Palace. They called and they wanted Secretary to fly to Las Vegas and walk around the outdoor fountain three times a day and for that they were going to pay $75.1 million, so we decided. I didn't do that because it would be too complicated, although one guy wanted to market the manure from it in a plastic tail.

I thought it was a pretty consistent look despite the sweet whiff of secondary success generated by his fame. Secretary continued to do what they did to the best of their ability, they had waited so long for us to get there like this and it really showed that the Cup filled her to the brim this is Secretariat Day in Chicago Illinois overseas Secretariat Information from the Secretariat for June that is the 16th Bull Run box avoid the Secretariat of the Secretariat entered his first time on the turquoise and won in Secretariat three months after winning the Belmont Secretary ran in the Marlboro Cup against a horse he met in his youth in that meadow , the 1972 Derby winner River Ridge would now challenge Let's Wave. a ridge on the outside and along the inside goes an onion that is now moving towards the containment onion on the ridge on the outside those two hands separated and I look and a big red head appears with this chapter switch on it and there was nothing I don't know if you knew he was a stablemate, buthe knew he ran off, sure he was totally out of place and all of a sudden he came out of nowhere and kept getting closer and faster and I was standing at the finish line with another. broadcast team member and I said he can't do it, he will announce it interested.

I'm excited. The Secretariat's Secretariat increased by two. They made us seconds and the Secretariat of pumas, what a Secretariat. He wanders around his stablemate Riva Ridge establishes a world? record for Milan, an eighth Secretariat ran his final race on a cold, wet October Sunday at Woodbine Ontario Ron Turcotte serving a non-season suspension jockey Eddie Maples sat uneasily in the saddle of the master horse Maple was a I'm a nervous wreck, I didn't want to, how would you like it? Be the injured one, the guy who lost on foot in the secretarial race last race. You know you wouldn't live like this for a while if something happened and he didn't win, but it's just tar and feathers, right?

I told my wife and son. goodbye, you know, maybe we'll never see him again, everyone knew that this was the end, that he wasn't going to race when he was four years old and everyone wanted him to go out and do something spectacular and he did and when the horses came out. At the final turn Secretary could be seen alone in front and steam was coming out of both nostrils. There we exhale like a locomotive. I mean, it was an incredible sight and that was the final competitive moment of a career that probably couldn't have known any limits.

Had I continued running when the race was over, I got off, squatted down and grabbed a handful of grass which, as far as I could tell, was the last step Secretariat had taken, like all great athletes who gave up at the top. Secretary dropped out of the race. fans wondering what could have been, we've been waiting for it for a long time, we've been waiting since Man O'War. I don't expect in my life to see another one like him, we could see another affirmed one or we could see another native dancer or something like that, but his final appearance on the track was perfect.

It's very rare that people go out to see a horse when in reality isn't racing, but Secretariat drew that kind of crowd at Aqueduct on November 6, 1973, just 16 months since its inauspicious debut. 33,000 faithful gathered to watch the great chestnut gallop pass by. the stands in the last farewells to him before retiring to the stud. I remember being there the day he came back to the bluegrass field in Lexington to be sent to Claiborne Farms and it was almost like the Air Force wanted to land and the president was getting off. He's a big draw, but also almost a cult hero.

People love going to Claver to see him after he retired. They really couldn't get over it. On that straw that's where the secretary slept when I moved here from California. I had never seen Secretary before and you know, before I went out to look for a place to live before I went out to buy furniture before doing anything I just felt this overwhelming need to go to Claver and farm and see Secretary and in 1976, when the Today Show in celebration of the Bicentennial went to each state, I arranged for them to come to Claiborne Farm in Paris and we set up right next to Secretariat's paddock. and it was one of the greatest performances of all time because it was like I knew he was on national television.

He would sit there with his head in his ears and it was like the star knew the red light was on. It was time to do it. I asked Hancock: No, how can you know? I mean, they all look so gorgeous, how could you know Secretary was better than anyone else? He said, you know, they're his eyes, you know, great athletes have big loaves, they're his eyes and, like him, Said eyes, Secretariat turned his head and looked at me like that to say and you better believe he just looked right at me. eyes and told me that even in the countryside, when they feed the horses, they wait until Secretariat eats first. standing to applaud the crowd for his horse, perhaps the best horse anyone has ever seen.

The stallion's career at Secretariat began with high expectations but he never came close to conveying his greatness, he was not a failure at stud, he was a serviceable stable and yet, You would have to say Secretariat was a bit disappointing, he was a fantastic broodmare father, his daughters turned out to be very successful broodmares, but I think the expectations for him were so unrealistic that people were going to be disappointed no matter what. what he created produced some pretty good horses, general assembly and then ladies secret who the horse was in the year 1986, but I think people expected him to produce horses like him and of course that was going to be impossible in September 1989 , it was clear. that something was wrong with the big red he let out one of the loudest, most merciless neighs you've ever heard from a horse he blurted out he was hurt and he was begging for it there had been stories that he was in trouble due to laminitis laminitis is a real disease Devastatingly, the hoof walls start to separate, it's like a nail being slowly pulled off and that is unbearably painful and there is no way for the horse to escape because it has to stand. and you hate to think of a horse like that suffering any kind of pain, it was sad because it meant so much to the sport, the horse that became so wildly popular that it was once described as the people's horse has died, we are all sorry.

In our own way, none of us could bear to see Camelot fall when I found out he was dead. I just broke down and cried for a long time in my hotel room, as sad as we were at 10 o'clock on a Thursday morning, you look at everyone. expensive tears rolling down your cheeks that's that neighborhood and be thankful for what you had when you went back to your job and see if you can come close to getting another taste that will never happen and you know it, but that's what you're in this because when Secretary died at 19 years old, an autopsy revealed what every poet knew: his heart was enormous, about two and a half times bigger than those running after him when I did that autopsy in Secretariat we were a stone age, he was certainly unusual.

He was almost a monster in nature, but a freak in terms of being so abnormally perfect. He had a larger engine and was able to break down oxygen and synthesize it faster and more efficiently than any other horse he had ever seen. He just had a superior nature. power pack and he was showing it to the world. I wonder what he thought. He must have felt a sense of accomplishment from time to time. Every once in a while, some athlete is touched for a moment with a kind of higher level of greatness that he may never reach again, but at some point. at that time they were more than life allows, it was the same thing Babe Ruth did for baseball with someone that everyone can identify with to think in awe and that's what he did with racing in recent years, betting Off the track have made horse racing a sport in absentia, the races are often run before nearly empty grandstands, which only lends greater meaning and mystique to Secretary's memory.

He sired a horse of the year, but nothing that comes close to him. An original American Secretary could not be duplicated.