Secretariat was a unique racehorse champion. Inspiring story.
Secretariat was not only the greatest race horse of the 20th century, if not of all time, but he is also considered one of the greatest “athletes” of the 20th century.
And Secretariat beat Sham, who also ran in all three of the Triple Crown races and was no slouch as a race horse in his own right. Of course a lot of credit has to go to his owner Penny Chenery and his trainer Lucien Laurin and his jockey Ron Turcotte.
But the most amazing thing about Secretariat was not just his incredible speed and coming from dead last to win in many races, but that he knew he was a winner, loved winning and he loved the attention and the spot light.
In the Belmont, his great lead early on in that race was to some of the experts, even his owner and trainer, a big mistake, some thinking “he’s running too fast”, that he’d break down before the race was finished but he just kept going and going and going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klP5dwGh88U