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Cris Potmesil wrote:
>  
> It wasn't Big Brown's day or race to win. Watching the past footage of 
> Secretariat's Triple Crown Races shows what it takes to win these 
> races. I don't think we'll see the likes of him ever again and that's 
> okay. Some things are once in a lifetime.
>  
I remember that day well. We had a Belmont party at my apartment. I was 
in grad school at the time - we used any excuse to party ;-) . There was 
a lot of "bad press" about Secretariat - especially in the NY press. 
"The horse can't go a mile and 1/2 with his breeding" it said. "The 
jockey is not that good and can't bring him home" it said. Well Ron 
Turcotte didn't have to worry. Big Red blew out of the gait acceleration 
around the track. When he rounded to turn into the stretch, Turcotte 
needed binoculars to see the rest of the horses. Wire to wire 38 lengths 
ahead of the rest of the pack and he was opening up ground as he went - 
and it was a pretty good pack - and he smashed the record and set a 
Belmont record that may never be broken. Big Red still owns the Derby 
record and my forever own the Belmont record. We just sit there in awe 
at what we just saw.

As Chick Anderson said after the race, Secretariat must have been 
reading the NY papers and didn't like what he read. Face it Big Brown is 
good - but he ain't no Big Red.
> My personal gripe is that I don't think horses that have not run both 
> the KY Derby and the Preakness should be allowed to enter the Belmont. 
> What kind of level playing field is it to make horses who have run 
> both races to compete against fresh horses who have not? I've never 
> understood why that is allowed.
>  
Nope bring them all on. You want to be the called best of the best you 
got to earn it.

Truman

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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand 
Russell


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