Just a remarkable animal and competitor.
It just destroyed that other horse. I wonder if it ever won another race.
Sham went lame later. Was retired in the summer.
No, he did NOT go lame in the Belmont Stk, as some Sec myths promulgate.
I heard that the “Big Red” sire ancestry goes back to 18/20 horses in the Derby this year.
Secretariat raced 6 more times after that Belmont, winning 4 of them (and two 2nd-place finishes.)
Just realized I misunderstood your comment
“I wonder if it ever won another race.”
Sham suffered a fracture at the 1973 Belmont Stakes, and was lucky to finish last, survive, and go to stud. Sham still holds the record for the 2nd fastest Kentucky Derby time, 159.4, which was only good enough for second place behind Secretariat. As his Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. once remarked, Affirmed was the best horse he had ever rode, but if Affirmed had been in the 1973 Kentucky Derby he would have finished third.
Sham was finished after the Belmont, sometime in the following weeks they discovered he had splintered his cannon bone (some say it might have already been a greenstick before the race), but healed successfully, and went to stud. Found dead of a heart attack at 23.
Twice a Prince hit the board in some graded stakes after the Belmont including a 3rd to the great Forego, but in '74 he broke down in a workout and eventually developed laminitis and was euthanized.