[gracex7]

I remember watching the race with my family (I loved all things that dealt with horses) and my dad, who didn't care for racing was yelling 'Look at that horse run...no ones gonna catch him, look at him run'. I can still picture it in my mind. ( Riva Ridge, who was out of the same stable as Big Red,(and was a halfbrother, I think)had won the Derby and Preakness the year before, but failed at Belmont.

[Joe 6-pack]

When I was first stationed at Fort Riley, I remember driving west from KC and seeing a billboard, "World's Fastest Greyhound, ??? Miles!" It was an ad for the Greyhound Racing Museum in Salina.

I went there to see it, and had to opine that the world's fastest greyhound wasn't moving all that quickly anymore.

[Wolfstar]

Riva was not a half-brother to Secretariat, although both were Meadow Stable homebreds and shared some of the same bloodlines. Riva Ridge was by First Landing out of the mare Iberia, by Heliopolis. Secretariat was by Bold Ruler out of Somethingroyal by Princequillo.