(05-03-2025, 02:52 PM)skip75 Wrote:(05-03-2025, 02:32 PM)Mick Wrote: All 19 horses in this year's Kentucky Derby have a common horse in their lineage. This horse has also won a Kentucky Derby. Which horse?Secretariat - or as Kruk & Kuip called him, the Wilt Chamberlain of the horse world.
Correct! Secretariat/WC won the Kentucky Derby. And the Preakness. And the Belmont Stakes. All in the same year...
Secretariat set speed records at each distance (KDerby, 1 mile; Preakness, 1 1/4 mile; Belmont, 1 1/2 mile) in all three races and won the Belmont Stakes by a record 31 lengths, in a still-existing record of 2:24. Secretariat also holds the fastest 1⁄2-, 3⁄4-, 1- and 1+1⁄4-mile fractions in Belmont history.
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