Facts about Secretariat
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Plenty of sales pitches but great detail on his great performancesESPN SportsCentury
Nice long bio of Secretariat, with all the detailsPure Heart
William Nack's touching 1990 essay on Secretariat's life and deathFamous Race Horses
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Secretariat Biography
Secretariat was the Muhammad Ali of racehorses, a brash and charismatic champ who was the breakaway winner of the 1973 Triple Crown. In 21 career starts, the big chestnut stallion finished first 16 times and earned a total of $1,316,808. He set a track record of 1:59 2/5 in the 1973 Kentucky Derby, and won the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, by an astonishing 31 lengths. After his three-year-old season he was retired to stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Secretariat died at the young age of 19; he was euthanized when a chronic foot disease called laminitis became too painful for him to bear.
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Secretariat won the 1973 Belmont Stakes in 2:24 flat, a world record for 1.5 miles… His sire was Bold Ruler, his mother Somethingroyal… Secretariat was known as ‘Big Red,’ a nickname he shared with 1930s Australian legend Phar Lap.