It was the ailment that ended Secretariat's life and those of many other brilliant horses.
Mark Dearn, campaigner, End Water Poverty, @mark_dearn, London, UK Mark works in campaigns at the secretariat of End Water Poverty, a global coalition campaigning on the water and sanitation crisis and for the human right to water and sanitation to be realised.
Other Kentucky Derby winners have also suffered from the disease; it ended the lives of Secretariat, Affirmed and Sunday Silence.
A vote to choose a new chairman for the secretariat of the African Union has ended in deadlock - despite three rounds of voting.
Alright, I know this picture was taken ten years after the 70s ended, but in 1973 Secretariat became one of only 11 horses to win the Triple Crown of Racing, so I thought he fit in here.
The Conference ended with the setting up of a Committee of Forty and a temporary Secretariat in Paris.
As a result, for the first time in 20 years the congress ended without agreement on a policy statement or on the membership of its powerful secretariat.
Trying the initial clocking of 1 55, he found that it went back so far that Secretariat's "rear end was still in the gate," rather than near the 1 3/16-mile pole, where the clock should have started.
Mohammed acknowledged that there were two processes – the high-level panel and a working group on sustainability – but said they shared one secretariat and the end result would be "one development agenda".
A total of 33 countries – including the no.2 emitter the United States, the no.3 emitter the European Union, and Russia, ranked fifth – submitted their reduction goals to the UN secretariat by the end of last month.
