Purse: $1 million guaranteed Distance: 1 3/16 miles Preakness record: 1 53 (Secretariat, 1973) Weight: 126 pounds Post time: 6 19 p.m. Eastern Television NBCC.
Purse: $2 million guaranteed Distance: 1 1/4 miles Track record: 1 59 2/5 (Secretariat, 1973) Weight: 126 pounds Post time: 6 24 p.m. Eastern Television NBCC.
Purse: $1 million guaranteed Distance: 1 1/2 miles Belmont record: 2 24 (Secretariat, June 9, 1973) Weight: 126 pounds Post time: 6 36 p.m. Eastern Television NBCC.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, April 14, 1973 P. 92 Secretariat won the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct last Saturday.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, November 18 , 1974P. 192 "Secretariat", a book by Raymond G. Woolfe, Jr. (Chilton), is a delight either to read or just look at the pictures.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, March 10 , 1973P. 129 Secretariat, the 1972 Horse of the Year, has just become the most expensive thoroughbred in the annals of racing.
It will also fill a gap in the international spectrum of organizations, since no other intergovernmental institution is dedicated to the promotion of renewable energy, said Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien, who heads the REN21 secretariat in Paris.
Purse: $2 million guaranteed; Distance: 1 1/4 miles; Track record: 1 59 2/5 (Secretariat, 1973); Post time: 6 24 p.m. Eastern; Weight: 126 pounds; Television: NBC 4 Union Rags Matz Leparoux 9-2 Thistalkerer has won four of six and was impressive in two narrow defeats.
Purse: $1 million guaranteed Weight: 126 pounds Distance: 11.2 miles Track record 2 24 (Secretariat, 1973) Post time: Saturday, 6 38 p.m. Eastern Television NBCC POST -- 5 HORSE (ODDS) -- Giacomo (4-1) TRAINER/JOCKEY -- John Shirreffs/Mike Smith COMMENT -- His trainer thought all along that this son of Holy Bull was tailor-made for the grueling half-mile.
Weight: 126 pounds Distance: 1 1/2 miles Post time: Saturday, 6 04 p.m. Eastern Track record: 2 24 (Secretariat, 1973) Television: NBC POST: 5 HORSE: Monarchos (ODDS): (5-2) TRAINER: John Ward JOCKEY Jorge Chavezz COMMENT: The Derby winner atones for his Preakness flop on a surface he seems to enjoy and at a distance he should excel at.
Weight: 126 pounds Distance: 11 1/4 miles Track record: 1 592 2/5 (Secretariat, 1973) Post time: Saturday, 6 04 P.M. Eastern Television: NBC POST: 16 HORSE (ODDS): Saarland (15-1) John Velazquez TRAINER TRAINER: Shug McGaughey Comment: Bred for the distance, minor surgery to correct breathing problem looks successful.
