Thanks for posting! I was 12. I remember that race. No doubt in my mind the greatest horse ever. Horses like Secretariat only come along once in a lifetime. What a joy it was to watch that race again!
My family and I watched it on television (at that time, at the ripe age of 16, I was a budding artist, and I’d done an oil painting of the famous magazine cover). I still remember my whole family, including the non-horse lovers, losing our minds, screaming ‘til we were hoarse, jumping up and down, when he took that lead. I will never, ever forget it.