Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners -- 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs. The 1¼-mile race featuring computer-generated ...

If records are made to be broken, then Secretariat is a spectacular exception to the rule. It has been 52 years since the 1973 Kentucky Derby winner accomplished record times in all three Triple Crown ...

Secretariat had an unusually large heart, an engine that propelled him to a Triple Crown sweep 50 years ago. The colt nicknamed Big Red remains the heartbeat of an industry that has yet to see such ...

When Secretariat won the Preakness on the way to his Triple Crown, the news appeared alongside stories about Watergate on The Baltimore Sun’s May 20, 1973, front page. In the half-century since, no ...

Secretariat (1970-89) was the winner of the 1973 Triple Crown and is widely considered to be one of the greatest Thoroughbred race horses of all time. His times in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont ...

A half century ago, Secretariat etched his name into the annals of not just horse racing, but America's sporting landscape. In the spring of 1973, Secretariat captured the Triple Crown — becoming the ...

Secretariat winning the 1973 Belmont Stakes remains arguably the most impressive performance in the history of horse racing a half-century later. His victory came by a record 31 lengths over the ...

Jockey Ron Turcotte hangs on as Secretariat romps along the final stretch before winning the Triple Crown in 1973. Secretariat’s 2:24 Belmont time is safe; no other horse has run under 2:26 (even that ...

Lawrence Scanlan is the author of 26 books, including The Horse God Built: Secretariat, His Groom, Their Legacy. The horse-human bond: For many years, that was my subject. I wrote more than a dozen ...

They are the keepers of the legend, the tellers of the tale. Four men, one woman. One living, four gone. It has been 50 years since Secretariat won the Triple Crown (the first in 25 years at the time; ...

Secretariat remains the greatest race horse ever. And more than 50 years on from his mile-and-a-quarter record at Churchill Downs, his influence is all over the Kentucky Derby. There's actually not a ...

NORMAN, Okla. — By autumn, the Secretariat coming to life at a sculptor’s Oklahoma studio will stand larger-than-life in bronze at the traffic circle in Lexington where Alexandria Drive meets Old ...