More than 300 people get on waiting list to visit Secretariat's gravesite on Oaks day 

Wow you're soo lucky 🥹🥹🥹

That's so wonderful. A great memory that will stay with you always.

He didn''t actually, It was his heart that made him so good as it was 2x the average horse heart! xx

@@WIATEQUINES His big heart helped make him run faster and longer but that’s just all part of what he was. ❤️

@@WIATEQUINES The extra-large heart is believed to be inherited through the female line, on the X chromosome. But his sire Bold Ruler definitely contributed speed.

Greatest of all time in any era?

@@sammygaudino8906 Look up the great Hungarian mare Kincsem. What a shame she couldn't have been bred to Secretariat!

You’re so blessed to have met and touched the great Secretariat! I had the opportunity to meet and pet American Pharoah in Kentucky in 2017 and of course I visited Secretariat’s grave at Claiborne that year.❤️

I visited him about a month before he got sick with laminitis. He was something to see. I got to pet him and received a lock of his mane, which I still have.

Now that you mention it, I had a chance to meet Mr Ed once. He told me to put all my money on a horse named Secretariat but I thought he was kidding and I just blew him off. I never sent any flowers to him or Wilbur when they died.

Oh my goodness you are so blessed to have touched that beautiful creature. He foundered and had to be euthanized. Happens to a lot of thoroughbreds. If it weren’t for Secretariat and Bold Ruler (both foundation stallions and legends out of Claiborne) I would not have had the gift of owning my own beloved racehorse, Hawaiian Diablo. I called him Harley. Both secretariat and Bold Ruler were in his lineage. I purchased my racehorse at a hunter-jumper barn after he was auctioned at the racetrack because he couldn’t run fast enough. Because he had such a great pedigree (Bold Ruler was famous for producing some of the greatest hunter-jumpers in the world), it was rumored he sold at Keenland auction for 250,000.00 as a yearling. He was the best horse I ever owned.

I went to see him in 1989 as well. It was in May. I will never forget that.

@didi ……ME TOO🫠!

It was something that two Triple Crown winners from two different countries were in the same barn at different ends of the barn. There will likely never be another UK Triple Crown winner, as Nijinsky is the only winner of the UK Triple Crown in almost 90 years to date, so it was a unique experience to see both horses.

@@ValleyoftheRogue hi there. People forget that Oh So Sharp achieved the fillies equivalent, 1000 gns, Oaks, St Leger. A great great filly and so over looked.

I was wondering why it was so hard to get a pizza that evening. Thank You, I finally have an explanation.

Sham had an oversized heart as well. Only 1 Secretariet!!!❤

I wonder how many of his progeny share that same huge physical advantage over other horses ?

To use an automotive analogy, if the heart of most Thoroughbreds are like V8s, Secretariat's heart is like a V16.

EXACTLY ❤

I met Mrs Tweedy, Lucien Laurin, Ron Turcotte, and Secretariat in the summer 1973. I appreciate that privilege.

I would love to visit this the farm-is it easy to find?

And walker has a child so hopefully the farm continues to the next generation

Hi @pesky citizen we've checked all the sources and the photo that's showing on to us is that of Secretariat witn Queen Elizabeth in 1984 at Claiborne. Sorry if you phone/tablet is showing something else. But thank you for watching our report. Doug

You got everyone right. He is the GOAT. For him to lose a race there had to be something wrong with him. He showed his superiority when he was himself. And he also had the biggest engine in a horse!!

Mine, too. I didn't get to see the real Big Red, but I was certainly his devotee! Wasn't a fan of Secretariat, didn't like Bold Ruler blood (only exception I made was for Ruffian). And, yet, that Belmont finish was utterly amazing. Man O' War had a huge lead in his Belmont, but he only had one challenger. Most of the owners and trainers didn't want their horses humiliated!

MOW was absolutely not the greatest. Any metric would have Sec on top, easily. You are simply a child who knows nothing about horse racing. Keep repeating what others tell you. It's who you are as a person.

How absurdly childish to take one of the most important and successful bloodlines in history and say you don't like it. The level of immaturity and stupidity in a post like that is utter foolishness.

@@bbmtge I've been studying bloodlines for a half a century. Crosses into one and out of another. Etc. I was not happy with any blood that was held up to be the ultimate above all others. And that was how the Nasrullah/Nearco/Bold Ruler line was spoken of back when I was a kid. I adored, like I said, Ruffian and, to be completely honest, Northern Dancer. But, they were both out of Native Dancer mares. I was raised on tales of The Ghost, as well as the original Big Red. Not childish, madam, just my preferences.

@@sheilatruax6172 The truly odd, absolutely odd, thing about your posts is that you make my point for me. You repeat in emotion based on what you claim are comments by others. What you just said is you don't like a bloodline based on someone else's comments about said bloodline. Those comments are completely separate from the actual function of that bloodline. An unbelievable comment from an unbelievable mindset. Absolutely irrational. Congrats on being so childish that when called out you simply post the same emotional garbage.

We humans are to inspire excellence from a beast?!! My goal of excellence is much higher.

@@stardel ...who are we to say how God elects to present us his miracles?

Yes to this day laminitis remains uncurable. It also claimed the life of Barbaro as well as ironically Bernardini who beat Barbaro on that fateful Preakness day

I don't get it either with all of the handlers secretariat had. Same thing happened with bodacious the goat of bulls he died of a hoof infection makes zero sense to me how a hoof infection went unnoticed