My older sister never liked Secretariat, or rather never really respected him until that Belmont. During the running of the Preakness that year, I got to her house right after the field entered the backstretch and she said to me that it was Sham's race. When I saw the replay, I realized why she said that; if it had been any other horse making that move around the clubhouse turn, she would have been right. That race, as much as the Belmont, marked Secretariat as truly something special. After the Belmont, she called me up and said that he was a wonder horse, but she still didn't like him. Her favorite was Seattle Slew and before that Nashua. She won't hear of any case for Swaps maybe being the better racehorse.
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08-09-2006, 08:34 PM
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