Secretariat - Preakness Stakes 1973

The actual footage of Secretariat's incredible Preakness Stakes victory during the second race of the 1973 Triple Crown.

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[jim jam]

Perhaps the greatest move in the history of the Triple Crown!

[SuperEquestrianRider]

Secretariat, the most amazing horse that has ever lived.

[fullstrutn]

even our ''favorite song'' would get old if listened to time after time after time,,maybe fans of other horses [and there are lots of great ones] get tired of hearing ''that name ''Big Red '' over and over ,but it's hard to erase facts ,he WAS the greatest

[Bob Gwartney]

Exactly. A really great horse like Sham gets left in the dust. Big Red hit the gas and that was that. I never saw the whip in any of these three races. I know they like to talk about how he ran his own races and it almost seems like he knew when it was time to kick ass. I know people scoff at him being named a top athlete but every once in a while it is true. He displays the same qualities that we see in many of the human athletes we are so quick to heap praise upon.

[Mohsin Ali]

feel so bad for sham,he would have won the triple crown any other year.

[lexusambassador]

Legend

[sweetkees]

Poetry in motion. Every time I see Secretariat running I am speechless.

[John Dekker]

his Preakness win is almost always overshadowed by the Derby and the Belmont, they [all 3, still] being THE absolute standard measurements which all other t breds fall short off, but I am never failed to be amazed by this race. Grade 1 horses are pasted like they are walking, and Secretariat is running well within his limits...forward gears Never used

[skeeds2]

Talk about wrong place at the wrong time, being in the same era with big red, sham would have been a super horse in his own right!

[99Silverado53]

Shams heart was 2x at 18 pounds and secretariats was estimated at 22lbs.

[purpleismyfavorange]

He had a heart 2x the size of a normal horse heart

[mysammy1107]

Yes sir, shear power, grace, speed...Amazing.