Secretariat's story has been told again and again, and he is still considered by many to be the greatest horse to ever set foot on a racetrack. As a stallion, however, he rarely received the ...

The Wood Memorial Stakes was inaugurated in 1925 and has a long history of producing Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown ...

Trained by Hall of Famer Lucien Laurin and ridden primarily by Hall of Famer Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Eclipse Awards for Horse of the Year and Champion 2-Year-Old Male in 1972.

A little-known fact about Secretariat at the Derby – his times in each successive quarter-mile got faster, meaning the horse and jockey Ron Turcotte were accelerating as the race wore on.

There have been a dozen other Triple Crown winners, but there is a reason Secretariat's name remains the standard of excellence in horse racing. MORE: Horses, odds, expert picks & more for 2023 ...

Secretariat was born in Caroline County at Meadow Stable, which has ties to an Ashland resident. “But Christopher Chenery is the man who founded the Meadow in 1936, and he grew up in Ashland,” said ...