Holy crap, I just watched that video clip and Secretariat totally smoked those other horses.
Fastest 1 1/2 miles in history. ...by wide margin. Still to this day.
Oh yeah. There was two different horse races going on there, Secretariat alone and the rest of the field. Races like that just aren’t seen, especially at that level. A race I will never forget, and I didn’t even see it at the time- I was listening to the announcer on the radio and he was so excited I thought he would have a heart attack.