To this day, the greatest race horses are compared to the performance of Secretariat. But the Wood hasn’t had great success recently sending horses to Louisville to win the Kentucky Derby. Secretariat's victory was by such a large margin, that not even the widest camera angle could show him in the same shot as the next nearest horse. The 750,000 Wood Memorial winner at Aqueduct in New York. He did more than win the Belmont, Secretariat set two more world–records - he finished the Belmont's one and half mile race in 2:24 seconds, and he won the race 31 lengths ahead of the second place finisher. Then, just a few weeks later, only 4 horses went on to challenge Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes. Just two weeks following the Kentucky Derby, Secretariat won the Preakness Stakes. When seven thoroughbreds died at Churchill Downs, it was significant news, but little was said about the individual horses. What's more impressive was Secretariat's response to the pressure of his fans and the media to be the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Secretariat went on to win the Kentucky Derby, two and a half lengths ahead of Sham, and with a world-record finish time of 1:59 2/5 – “Big Red” cracked the two minute race time, as did Sham as the second place finisher. In a field of 14 horses, Sham led in the Kentucky Derby race until Secretariat caught up with him half way down the finishing stretch. Sham beat Secretariat in the Wood Memorial, just weeks before the Kentucky Derby, so each of the horses’ connections was eager and anxious to face one another, again, on the first Saturday in May. One of Secretariat's defeats was to a horse named Sham, another one of history’s greatest race horses. ![]() Secretariat didn't go undefeated in his career, but he did finish "in the money" in all but one of his 21 lifetime races. Nicknamed “Big Red”, for his reddish brown color, Secretariat broke several records in his 16 month racing career. In 1973, arguably the greatest race horse of all time, Secretariat, won the Kentucky Derby. Carmouche got his first Kentucky Derby mount in 2021 after winning the Wood Memorial at 721 odds aboard Bourbonic, and he’s now a major player on the New York circuit.
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