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First Triple Crown Winner Since Miguel Cabrera

Written by Young $narf

WOW – pretty nice pull away at the end, Secretariat-style. And Penny Chenery is the 93-year old woman in attendance Pharoah’s owner stopped to shake hands with. Not bad. “I’m 61 years old, and I’ll never see, in my lifetime, I will never see another Triple Crown winner, because [of] the way they do this,” said California […]

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Secretariat – Belmont Stakes 1973

Written by Young $narf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFquax2F-k For some perspective ….. “If this years {2012} Belmont Stakes winner, Union Rags, was in this race with Secretariat he’d have finished approximately 32 Lengths behind the GREAT Secretariat ! Secretariats time in 1973 – 2:24 Union Rags time 2012 – 2:30 42 6 1/2 seconds behind Secretariat. Union Rags ran a terrific race […]

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