"The coach keeps saying, 'I'm going to ride him like Secretariat.' You worry about that.
"If they had done that with a clone of Secretariat do you think people would care?" Dr. Bailey said.
And the unique thing about being from that part of the world, when you learn about breeding, you learn that you cannot breed Secretariat to a donkey and expect to win the Kentucky Derby.
"We needed to start with something objective," said Pascal Saint-Amans, head of the global forum secretariat at the O.E.C.D. "If you have no agreement, you have not started the process".
But I can't even remember the other horse's name — who, if you took away Secretariat, was the fastest horse that had ever run".
He looked at me. "Do you know who Secretariat beat?" Leaving aside the confusing bit about underdog status, the implication was that Phelps is Secretariat and Ryan Lochte, with his dental grille and his boastful designs on claiming the sport's mantle, is the also-swam.
One example of Aniston's hard-hitting questions: "You are like the Secretariat of actresses -- when I see your body of work and everything you have achieved.
But Helena Molin Valdés, head of the Secretariat, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, argued that you could change the public's attitude by warning them: "You will have a heart attack by 59 because of pollution".
"If you look at the secretariat of the United Nations it is dominated by industrialised economies because they are the ones who contribute the bulk of the budget and they get the bulk of the positions in the secretariat, managerial positions," he said.
She's, I don't know — like a Secretariat or a Seattle Slew — whatever you want to call it, I've never been on one like that in my life".
Even if you don't know what a Secretariat is, the name will always bring that spine-tingling, 31-length Belmont victory.
