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The syndication deal for Secretariat precluded the horse racing past age three. Accordingly, Secretariat's last race was against older horses in the Canadian International Stakes over one and five-eighths miles on the turf at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 28, 1973.
The 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973.Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths going away (had the race been longer he would have won by even more), the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators.
The Secretariat Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds over a distance of one mile on the turf. The event was originally raced at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights , Illinois as a supporting stakes race on the Arlington Million racing program.
As well, Secretariat raced 21 times in his career, including nine times as a 2-year-old (on the way to winning the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year), three times as a 3-year-old before the ...
Many believe Secretariat’s Belmont to be the greatest performance in the history of American racing.” Secretariat ran six more races after the Belmont, winning four of them, before retiring at ...
Somethingroyal (March 12, 1952 – June 9, 1983) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the dam of the 1973 U.S. Triple Crown champion and Hall of Fame inductee Secretariat. She also produced three other stakes winners and was named the 1973 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year.
Secretariat, who had passed his competitors on the outside throughout the race, overtook Sham in the final furlong and pulled ahead, [32] finishing 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 horse lengths in front of Sham. [26] Our Native took third and Forego, who went on to win multiple Eclipse Awards as an older horse, [33] was fourth. [32]
[25] [26] [27] Following all five analysts obtaining the time of 1:53, the commission unanimously voted to change Secretariat's time from 1:54 2 ⁄ 5 to 1:53, which broke the then-course record of 1:53 2 ⁄ 5. [N 4] [25] [26] Altering Secretariat's time allowed him to actively hold the course record for all three legs of the Triple Crown.