It’s a good thing the connections of Secretariat had their confidence built up by their star’s performance in winning the Kentucky Derby, because they needed every bit of it to fend off the demons and bad omens that swirled around the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, May 19, 1973.
Tag: Legends
Rachel Alexandra: A Superstar Filly for the Ages
Dolph Morrison bred Rachel Alexandra but was so unimpressed in the early stages of her development that he twice contemplated selling her.
Before the Legend: Remembering Secretariat’s Magical 1973 Season
Live long enough, and you may see a legend form before your eyes. Deserving immortality, yet also simplified from the reality you knew.
Underappreciated Stars of the 1920s: Reigh Count, Sarazen, and Princess Doreen
By the 1920s, horse racing was rebounding from the trying circumstances of the previous two decades, where the sport has contracted from more than 300 racetracks prior to 1900 to only 25 by the end of the 1910s.
