2 weeks ago our local newspaper ran a feature written by a local reporter about how he bought Secretariat’s gransdson after he was retired from race course circuit. He fell in love with this horse when he was asked to cover him in a year when the descendents of numerous great horses were hitting the track. This colt was special — even carries the faint star on the forehead — but he never really tore up the race track. The owner refused to sell, as long as he did well enough to pay his feed bill, but when he tore (or strained) a muscle the owner decided to sell to our reporter.
Secretariat’s grandson is now running free in a field in our county. Attempts to turn him into an ordinary riding horse have been mixed. He threw our intrepid reporter on his first ride, and the reporter is now nursing 5 cracked ribs.
I would post the link and picture, but I can’t remember the title and I can’t find it with a search. It ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I had wanted to send the link to my graddaghter and DIL who are both horse crazy. :(
I’ll keep looking, and I will go see this movie.
Great story!