I watched the news footage (on YouTube) of Secretariat running the Belmont. I thought maybe it would bring us all good luck and another Triple Crown winner. Man, that run of Secretariat's gives me gooseflesh every time I see it.
Olympia--I also get chills watching that video. I was luck to visit Claiborne Farm and go into his old stall, then occupied by Easy Goer. Just standing there reading the nameplates of all the other stallions who had occupied that stall gave me goosebumps.
^ I agree. I think he was tactless. However, perhaps the 3 races should be spaced out (a month apart) so that all of the horses are more rested for the entire series.
The 11 other Triple Crown winners didn't need it spaced further apart. Perhaps breeding more stamina would be an order, and working them at 2 mile fast gallops and not 2 mile slow gallops for a race that is 1 1/2 miles.
I think he was so let down that CC didn't win as was I. In some way, I kind of feel the same way. I wonder what would have happened had the other horses run the same races. The only thing I wished he would have worded his rant differently then he wouldn't have been such a sore loser but he did what he felt....and ....I felt for him.