“Sigh. We’ll never see a miracle like Secretariat again”
That’s for sure. One of the news weeklies called him ‘The Athlete of the Century’ and they weren’t exaggerating.
Here’s the race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM
It just never gets old. I think they finally figured that Secretariat won by 31 lengths.
Poor old Sham ran the race of his life, a world record pace until he finally couldn’t keep up and Secretariat just kept pouring on the gas.
