Secretariat (1975) (edit title/settings)

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• Howard M. Gentry: Manager of the Meadow Stud in Doswell.
• Raymond W. Wood: A railroad conductor. Friend & neighbor of Howard.
• Ron Turcotte: Add a description of this character.
• Lucien Laurin
• Beyer
• Seth Hancock
• Riva Ridge
• Chris Chenery
• Princequillo
• Whittaker
• Gaffney
• Pincay
• Martin
• Feliciano
• Arcaro
• Ronnie
• Nasrullah
• Pancho
• Linda
• Bailes
• Vasquez
• Charlie Davis
• John
• Charles Hatton
• Finney
• Mrs. Phipps
• Billy Silver
• Rogers
• Benjamin
• Shecky Greene
• Mary
• Robinson
• Irwin
• Bull Hancock
• Sham
• Mrs. Tweedy
• Henny Hoeffner
• Sommer
• Bold Ruler
• Somethingroyal

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• “It was a union of established aristocracy.”

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• Education was not what set men apart. What distinguished them was the intensity of the drive and the energy and imagination they possessed and used.

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• A twelve-clip is the rate of speed horses must average or maintain to win major stakes races at American middle and classic distances, distances from a mile to a mile and a quarter.

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• “The price does not always represent what a horse is worth,” Chenery once said. “It is only what some fool thinks he is worth.”

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• For another furlong in 0:12 would send a horse a mile and an eighth, or nine furlongs, in 1:48, a clocking that would have won every running of the $100,000 Wood Memorial since it was run at that distance in 1952. And another 0:12-second furlong would send a horse a mile and a quarter in 2:00 flat, which was the Kentucky Derby record set by Northern Dancer in 1964; and a mile and three-eighths in 2:12, two and one-fifth seconds faster than Man o’ War’s American record; and a mile and a half in 2:24.

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• In her first twenty-five years as a breeder, by far the fastest thoroughbred she bred was Seabiscuit, the bay horse who bumped off War Admiral in the famous Pimlico match race on November 1, 1938,

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• He makes sense of all the mystical pageant rites of blood through which he has evolved as distillate, a climactic act in a triumph of the breed, one horse combining all the noblest qualities of his species and his ancestry—of the unbeaten Nearco through Nasrullah and Bold Ruler, of the iron horse Discovery through Outdone and Miss Disco, of the dashing St. Simon through Prince Rose and Princequillo, and of the staying Brown Bud through Imperatrice by way of Somethingroyal. He defines the blooded horse in his own terms.

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• By the close of the 2009 Triple Crown season, a total of 1,382,316 thoroughbreds had been born and come of age in North America since 1970, the year of Secretariat’s birth, and not only did he still own the Kentucky Derby record by himself, no horse had come remotely close to equaling his world record at Belmont—a mile and a half in 2:24 flat.

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• A fifth of a second is equal to a length, so Gold Bag and Angle Light beat him by six.

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• In 1992, Secretariat was the leading broodmare sire in the nation, his 135 daughters having produced the winners of more purse money, almost $6.7 million, than the daughters sired by any other stallion. (In all, Secretariat mares have produced runners that so far have won upward of $115 million in purses.)

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• raconteur with a reverberating baritone voice. At Princeton he studied eugenics,

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Churchill Downs: Where the Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky.
• Belmont Park: Where the final leg of the Triple Crown horse race is held, in Elmont, New York.
• America
• New York
• Kentucky Derby
• The Meadow
• Saratoga
• Florida
• Belmont Stakes
• Virginia
• Hialeah
• Claiborne Farm
• Gotham
• Long Island
• Aqueduct
• Lexington
• Louisville
• Pimlico
• Paris
• Ireland
• Canada
• Baltimore
• California
• France
• Damascus
• Wood Memorial
• Denver
• Sanford
• Trevose
• Ellerslie
• Nearco
• Chicago
• Washington
• Queens
• Richmond
• Music
• Meadow Stable
• Nashua
• Laurel
• Manhattan
• Colorado
• Santa Anita
• Jamaica
• New Jersey
• Dublin
• Pelham Manor

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Glossary edit see section history

• Thoroughbred: A breed of horses best known for their use in horse racing.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. William Nack (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: SF355.S42 N3 1975
• Dewey: 798.43

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Sports › Individual Sports › Horses › Racing

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• Secretariat (2010) (IMDb): Staring Diane Lane, John Malkovich, and James Cromwell

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