And The Greatest Performance Ever By A Horse Goes To....
by JP Fanshawe on Jun 5, 2010 12:34 AM EDT
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SECRETARIAT - 1973 Belmont Stakes - a new look! (via gfn02)
It was a good year, if only for two things...my wife was born and Secretariat won the Triple Crown in crushing fashion. If you have never watched it, it is spine-tingling, awe-inspiring, flat-out amazing. I have watched the replay many times, and I have to say my favorite part is when Chick Anderson exclaims at the 1:39 mark of the video: "Secretariat is widening now! He is moving like a TREMENDOUS MACHINE!" If you have never seen it, get ready to witness greatness. If you have seen it, prepare to witness greatness, again. Secretariat is the only horse I think, ever, to run each successive fraction faster than its predecessor, and at a mile-and-a-half! Final time 2:24. A record that still stands and probably always will. Beyer once took a guess at what Big Red's speed figure would have been that day...139. I want to see this kind of greatness once in my life.
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A once in a lifetime race.
Truly remarkable what that horse did on that day.
"A bad day at the track is better than a good day at the office."
Without a doubt..
One good part of being old (47) is that you can say you saw such things when they happened and I saw this with my dad on the tube – it was awesome. I can also vividly remember seeing the Immaculate Receptoin when it happened.
Sham
Sham had run a great race in the Kentucky Derby that year – most remember this race because of the 30 lengths.
So true about Sham...
He was tough in both the Derby and the Preakness that year.
I’m sure you’ve seen the ESPN SportsCentury where Mike Battaglia says something to the effect that ‘no horse in the history of the game would have beaten Secretariat on that day.’ It’s tough to argue that point given how great that performance was.
"A bad day at the track is better than a good day at the office."
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