Triple Crown + Travers

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by outofthebox

Why did Secretariat pass up the Travers and run in the Whitney?

Whitney might have been a planned prep for the Travers like with Easy Goer maybe?

In fact, Secretariat was defeated in 3 races as a 3-year-old (Whitney, Woodward, and Wood Memorial) -- Easy Goer is the only horse to ever sweep those three races. He also won the Travers.