1973: Secretariat rules Secretariat, the horse with the outsized heart, broke a 25-year Triple Crown drought when he followed up his record-setting Derby win with a Preakness victory and then ...

Secretariat is widely considered to be ... the 1 1/4-mile race in less than two minutes (1:59.40). He later won the Triple Crown with a record-breaking 31-length victory at the Belmont Stakes.

Secretariat won the Eclipse Awards for Horse of the Year and Champion 2-Year-Old Male in 1972. The following year, he became the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948, setting records ...

The 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah ran the sixth-fastest Belmont Stakes ever, but if he were racing against Secretariat’s record time in 1973, he would have been a distant second.

Over the ensuing months, the chestnut colt became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years ... including stories of all of Secretariat's stakes winners, a close examination of the stallion's ...

Thirteen horses have swept the Triple Crown: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), ...

Horses usually make it around the track in a little over two minutes, with Secretariat's 1973 pace ... The third, fourth and fifth place winners received $500,000, $250,000 and $150,000, respectively.

Fifty years ago, a 3-year-old chestnut Thoroughbred stallion named Secretariat won the 1973 Belmont Stakes ... in the stands and sweeping the Triple Crown. Today, a half-century later, people ...