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Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three of its constituent races. He is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time.
The 1973 Kentucky Derby was the 99th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Secretariat won the Derby in a record time of 1: 59 + 2 ⁄ 5, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths ahead of Sham, while Our Native finished in third position.
The fastest time ever run in the Derby was in 1973 at 1:59.4 minutes, when Secretariat broke the record set by Northern Dancer in 1964. Also during that race, Secretariat did something unique in Triple Crown races: for each successive quarter run, his times were faster.
Nearly everyone knows Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in record-setting fashion. Here are the five slowest winners of the Run for the Roses. Secretariat has fastest Kentucky Derby time, of course.
The Triple Crown has been won only 13 times in all, with the first coming in 1919, and its history is marked by long drought Secretariat's record-setting Belmont Stakes win to claim the Triple ...
Secretariat is widely regarded as the greatest racing horse of all time. ... An autopsy revealed Secretariat's heart was nearly three times larger than the average Thoroughbred's heart. It was ...
The next day, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin asked for the videotape to be reviewed because he felt that if Secretariat did run that fast, then "he deserves the record." [23] On May 21, race officials adjusted Secretariat's winning time to 1: 54 + 2 ⁄ 5, becoming the then second fastest time in race history. [24]
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.