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.

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Triple Crown immortality is horse racing's greatest honor. Countless horses have tried and only 11 have succeeded. In 1919, Sir Barton was the first horse to claim the Triple Crown, capturing the ...

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 ...

A total of 373 three-year-old Thoroughbreds, led by Champion Two-Year-Old Male Citizen Bull, were made eligible to this year’s Triple Crown series with a $600 early nomination payment that was due Jan ...