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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.

Secretariat Belmont Park 1973 Triple Crown Marlboro Cup

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.

Secretariat and Ron Turcotte after winning the 1973 Preakness stakes.

Secretariat, the Preakness, and a 39-Year Controversy

Maximum Security’s disqualification in the 2019 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve inspired much controversy, and the debate at times felt like the 1950 Kurosawa film “Rashomon,” where multiple witnesses to an event retell it in vastly different ways. All of us saw the same race, yet so many people have different interpretations of what they saw.

Afleet Alex and jockey Jeremy Rose win the 2004 Sanford Stakes, their first of many graded stakes wins.

Afleet Alex: Amazing Athlete Earned Improbable Preakness Win

Everyone has an opinion in horse racing. It’s one of the most alluring aspects of the sport. Debates rage about which horse was better, which performance was greater, or which rivalry was the most memorable.

Handicappers, racing writers, and fans rarely — in fact, almost never — agree.

But there is one performance that stands out as unequivocally one of the best races a horse has ever delivered on the Triple Crown stage: Afleet Alex’s Preakness Stakes victory in 2005.

Secretariat Kentucky Derby Ron Turcotte racehorse Lucien Lauren Penny Chenery Meadow Stable Triple Crown Sham BloodHorse horse racing

A History-Making Performance: Recalling Secretariat’s 1973 Kentucky Derby Victory

For those that ponied up $190,000 apiece for membership in Secretariat’s breeding syndicate, the period between the powerful chestnut’s loss in the April 21 Wood Memorial Stakes and the May 5 Kentucky Derby was gut-check time.

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