Posted on 06/09/2008 5:30:53 PM PDT by hole_n_one
Secretariat is widening now.!....
He is moving like a tremendous machine!........
Secretariat by 12!.......
Secretariat by 14 lengths on the turn!.......
Secretariat was as good as a horse can get. I heard the race announcer interviewed last Saturday, he said that Secretariat was so far ahead he simply had to guess at the distance. A good guess as it turned out.
Did you know that Secretariat had a heart that weighed 22 lbs? The typical thoroughbred heart weighs like 7-9 lbs. Sorry had to give a bit of trivia, I work for a horseracing website and LOVE the sport.
Today’s trivia question...you can NOT google it...who trained Secretariat?
Lucian Lauren???
Lucien Laurin?
Yes...very good.
Lucien Lauren
I have never been enthralled with Secretariat, for some reason Man O war has always held my fancy as the GOAT,what he did in only 21 races is unbelievable.
Yes.
thanks, but I googled it....trainer secretariat...came right up...
sometimes you know you are watching something truly special.
the people who were blessed enough to watch Babe Ruth dominate baseball. Jim Brown dominate football. Michael Jordans shot over Craig Ehlo. Tiger Woods.
Secretarian is on the list. the people who were alive in 1973 really enjoyed a treat.
Well, it’s easy if you google it. :-)
Saw it on TV live. Tremendous.
OK, my two googling friends...without using google, in which state was Secretariat bred?
And as far as Big Brown. All I have read and researched over the past few weeks..well, BB is a very smart horse... that is the ideas that I came out with...Saturday... Belmont. 95 degrees....80% humidity....BB says hell with this... all the rest run...BB says “no way.... too hot for me.. out of my comfort zone”...kinda reminds me of my cat, laying on my porch this past Saturday afternoon.
He looks up at me, same weather conditions, and says, “I ain’t movin today, sorry.”
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Big Brown, smart horse, all the rest were dumb. The rest win bigs bucks for owner. BB’ dinner was probably still the same on Saturday night... win or last place..
I was thrilled to see BB lose. Not because of the horse, but because Dutrow is an arrogant punk who needed a big dose of humility.
Same state I came from...VA
“Big Brown, smart horse, all the rest were dumb.”
Ha...you are not the first to suggest this. I have read comments from several of the great trainers that some intelligent horses figure out they don’t have to run.
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