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he is moving like a tremendous machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oyQPvoXMvs
Secretariat's last known footage.
Family man asks to see Secretariat and takes video footage with his kids.
Secretariat's last known footage.
Family man asks to see Secretariat and takes video footage with his kids.
Thank you MD - 'twas a delight....
Interesting that the REAL story is that RIVA RIDGE saved Penny Chenery's farm, not Secretariat. PC was not that happy with the film but it was explained that the film could only have one hero.
Interesting that the REAL story is that RIVA RIDGE saved Penny Chenery's farm, not Secretariat. PC was not that happy with the film but it was explained that the film could only have one hero.
A very good horse but overhyped because of that race. He had only one proper opponent, Sham, the other three in the race were no-hopers.
"After about three-quarters of a mile, a third of the way through the race, Secretariat increased his pace and pulled ahead rapidly as Sham began to tire.
With Pincay easing back to protect the horse, Sham ultimately finished last as Secretariat pulled away to a win recorded at 31 lengths.
The time of 2:24 flat remains a world record for 1 1⁄2 miles on a dirt track.
While Sham did not race again after the Belmont Stakes, he was not retired until July 1973 (a month later) when he pulled up lame after a workout.
The cause was a fractured right cannon bone, which was surgically repaired with three screws.
"Sham broke a cannonbone," trainer Frank Martin said. "I knew when he run so bad, I knew something was wrong with him," and with that his racing career officially ended.
Belmont Stakes
2nd Twice A Prince ... 12th of 13 in the Kentucky Derby
3rd My Gallant .... 9th of 13 in the Kentucky Derby
4th Pvt Smiles .... won $45k in 19 starts
5th Sham
But on turf the record for 1½ miles (2,414 m) is 60.86 km/h (37.82 mph) by 3-year-old Hawkster at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, USA on 14 October 1989 with a time of 2min 22.8sec.
Secretariat set the Preakness record in 2012, although the race was run 39 years earlier in 1973
Upon the finish of the race there was a dispute over the winning time of Secretariat.
The electronic Visumatic timer on the field read 1:55, while Daily Racing Form clockers Gene Schwartz and Frank Robinson timed Secretariat at 1: 53 2⁄5, which would have broken the track record.
The official fractional times were 25, 48 4⁄5, 1:12, and 1: 36 1⁄5, while the Daily Racing Forum timed the fractions at 24 2⁄5, 47, 1: 10 2⁄5, and 1: 35 3⁄5.
The next day, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin asked for the videotape to be reviewed because he felt that if Secretariat did run that fast, then "he deserves the record."
On May 21, race officials adjusted Secretariat's winning time to 1: 54 2⁄5, becoming the then second fastest time in race history.
The time was changed to the time obtained by the official Pimilico timekeeper E.T. McLean per Rule 383 of the Maryland Rules of Racing, which stated the "official timer's time is official.
" McLean's stopwatch was faster than the Visumatic by three-fifths of a second at each fractional."
That same day, a Visumatic official checked the timer and stated that the timer should have actually read 1: 54 4⁄5, rather than 1:55.
It was determined that the chart for the Preakness would display McLean's time as the winning time, with the Daily Racing Forum time written next to it, in parenthesis.
Secretariat's owner Penny Chenery and Maryland Jockey Club president Thomas Chuckas asked the Maryland Racing Commission to review the 1973 Preakness.
On June 19, 2012, the commission announced their findings.
During a three-hour meeting, the tapes of Secretariat's run and the three new record-holding runs were overlaid by three separate companies from which a total of five analysts reviewed the footage.
Following all five analysts obtaining the time of 1:53, the commission unanimously voted to change Secretariat's time from 1:54 2⁄5 to 1:53, which broke the then-course record of 1:53 2⁄5.
Altering Secretariat's time allowed him to actively hold the course record for all three legs of the Triple Crown.
The overlaying method used by the committee was reported to be accurate to 0.03 of a second. A representative of Chenery stated that they were "very pleased" with the decision.
You need to take US race times with a pinch of salt (or a bit more).
Don't forget the run up. A horse can be up to full speed before the "race" starts.
US racing
The extra distance between where the starting gate is placed and the official start of the race is called the “run-up.”
If there is not a sensor for the official start, then the operator manually starts the timer when the first horse reaches the official starting point of the race.
the sensors that will be triggered during the running of the race are active only for approximately 20 seconds.
That limits the amount of time that the sensors can be triggered by objects other than the horses in the race, such as outriders, ambulances, birds, a player’s program hanging over the rail, or even a wind-tossed umbrella (it has happened).
For example, the run-up for a one-mile race at Santa Anita is 172 feet, according to charts; the run-up for a one-mile race at Gulfstream is only five feet; and the run-up for a race going one mile and 40 yards at Tampa Bay Downs is 24 feet.
All timing systems disregard the run-up, whatever the distance, since it is not part of the official distance of the race.
Teleview would time the race using the set of sensors closest to the course configuration, but the official time would not be posted until a computer calculated the estimated difference
between when an actual beam was broken and when a beam at the proper location would have been broken had it been in the right place.
Operators of beam-based systems say the overwhelming majority of timing problems occur when a sensor is blocked or is triggered by something other than a horse.
the system rarely flags times as being unacceptable, but if it does, it means that the time is wrong, since the system is set up primarily to flag data that are “theoretically impossible,” such as a sub-20-second quarter-mile.
"After about three-quarters of a mile, a third of the way through the race, Secretariat increased his pace and pulled ahead rapidly as Sham began to tire.
With Pincay easing back to protect the horse, Sham ultimately finished last as Secretariat pulled away to a win recorded at 31 lengths.
The time of 2:24 flat remains a world record for 1 1⁄2 miles on a dirt track.
While Sham did not race again after the Belmont Stakes, he was not retired until July 1973 (a month later) when he pulled up lame after a workout.
The cause was a fractured right cannon bone, which was surgically repaired with three screws.
"Sham broke a cannonbone," trainer Frank Martin said. "I knew when he run so bad, I knew something was wrong with him," and with that his racing career officially ended.
Belmont Stakes
2nd Twice A Prince ... 12th of 13 in the Kentucky Derby
3rd My Gallant .... 9th of 13 in the Kentucky Derby
4th Pvt Smiles .... won $45k in 19 starts
5th Sham
But on turf the record for 1½ miles (2,414 m) is 60.86 km/h (37.82 mph) by 3-year-old Hawkster at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, USA on 14 October 1989 with a time of 2min 22.8sec.
Secretariat set the Preakness record in 2012, although the race was run 39 years earlier in 1973
Upon the finish of the race there was a dispute over the winning time of Secretariat.
The electronic Visumatic timer on the field read 1:55, while Daily Racing Form clockers Gene Schwartz and Frank Robinson timed Secretariat at 1: 53 2⁄5, which would have broken the track record.
The official fractional times were 25, 48 4⁄5, 1:12, and 1: 36 1⁄5, while the Daily Racing Forum timed the fractions at 24 2⁄5, 47, 1: 10 2⁄5, and 1: 35 3⁄5.
The next day, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin asked for the videotape to be reviewed because he felt that if Secretariat did run that fast, then "he deserves the record."
On May 21, race officials adjusted Secretariat's winning time to 1: 54 2⁄5, becoming the then second fastest time in race history.
The time was changed to the time obtained by the official Pimilico timekeeper E.T. McLean per Rule 383 of the Maryland Rules of Racing, which stated the "official timer's time is official.
" McLean's stopwatch was faster than the Visumatic by three-fifths of a second at each fractional."
That same day, a Visumatic official checked the timer and stated that the timer should have actually read 1: 54 4⁄5, rather than 1:55.
It was determined that the chart for the Preakness would display McLean's time as the winning time, with the Daily Racing Forum time written next to it, in parenthesis.
Secretariat's owner Penny Chenery and Maryland Jockey Club president Thomas Chuckas asked the Maryland Racing Commission to review the 1973 Preakness.
On June 19, 2012, the commission announced their findings.
During a three-hour meeting, the tapes of Secretariat's run and the three new record-holding runs were overlaid by three separate companies from which a total of five analysts reviewed the footage.
Following all five analysts obtaining the time of 1:53, the commission unanimously voted to change Secretariat's time from 1:54 2⁄5 to 1:53, which broke the then-course record of 1:53 2⁄5.
Altering Secretariat's time allowed him to actively hold the course record for all three legs of the Triple Crown.
The overlaying method used by the committee was reported to be accurate to 0.03 of a second. A representative of Chenery stated that they were "very pleased" with the decision.
You need to take US race times with a pinch of salt (or a bit more).
Don't forget the run up. A horse can be up to full speed before the "race" starts.
US racing
The extra distance between where the starting gate is placed and the official start of the race is called the “run-up.”
If there is not a sensor for the official start, then the operator manually starts the timer when the first horse reaches the official starting point of the race.
the sensors that will be triggered during the running of the race are active only for approximately 20 seconds.
That limits the amount of time that the sensors can be triggered by objects other than the horses in the race, such as outriders, ambulances, birds, a player’s program hanging over the rail, or even a wind-tossed umbrella (it has happened).
For example, the run-up for a one-mile race at Santa Anita is 172 feet, according to charts; the run-up for a one-mile race at Gulfstream is only five feet; and the run-up for a race going one mile and 40 yards at Tampa Bay Downs is 24 feet.
All timing systems disregard the run-up, whatever the distance, since it is not part of the official distance of the race.
Teleview would time the race using the set of sensors closest to the course configuration, but the official time would not be posted until a computer calculated the estimated difference
between when an actual beam was broken and when a beam at the proper location would have been broken had it been in the right place.
Operators of beam-based systems say the overwhelming majority of timing problems occur when a sensor is blocked or is triggered by something other than a horse.
the system rarely flags times as being unacceptable, but if it does, it means that the time is wrong, since the system is set up primarily to flag data that are “theoretically impossible,” such as a sub-20-second quarter-mile.
Very interesting...name a better horse then, or a few better horses if you like...
https://stablemanagement.com/.image/t_share/MTQ1MDY3NjE3NDg4ODA3MjAw/photoscom.jpg
comes with free track record time
comes with free track record time
Pealer really stretched them out by 19l, 48l, 90l, and one pulled up. What a horse !!!!
https://www.racingpost.com/results/394/southwell-aw/2017-05-08/673535
https://www.racingpost.com/results/394/southwell-aw/2017-05-08/673535
Yeah, cause a £4K median auction race at Southwell is just like an American classic race run in the golden age of the 70s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbHpy61bTk
SPECTACULAR BID WALKOVER.
SPECTACULAR BID WALKOVER.
I tend to think that the horse with the biggest healthy heart is probably the best...PHAR LAP - 14 LBS...SECRETARIAT 22 LBS...etc.
Larry Holmes on Muhammad Ali - "Awfully awfully over-rated as a fighter..."
What's the point of being a hyper-reductionist in sport when the style and drama and circumstances counts for so much in our perception of performers?
I meam...the very fact that there were no opponents for Spectacular Bid...
Larry Holmes on Muhammad Ali - "Awfully awfully over-rated as a fighter..."
What's the point of being a hyper-reductionist in sport when the style and drama and circumstances counts for so much in our perception of performers?
I meam...the very fact that there were no opponents for Spectacular Bid...
We know there have always been problems with electrical timing, with variations from track to track, and basic human error. But it would be an amazing coincidence if every one of Secretariat's record times as a 3yo were nothing more than aberrations. Equalled the track record in the Gotham, smashed Northern Dancer's record at Kentucky, another record in the Preakness, and then the Belmont. I mean, at the 2f pole he'd already smashed the 10f record at Belmont by a full second, and that was a record held by none other than Kelso.
Surely you can't run up a sequence like that by being lucky with the clock every single time.
To be honest, going back to the previous summer there'd be a case for calling him an all-time great just on the basis of that extraordinary 2yo career - the 8l demolition of Stop The Music in the Laurel Futurity, for instance.
Apologies if all this is just repeating what's in the the movie. I still haven't got round to seeing it. But to me Secretariat and the clock are like Arkle and the weights - they demonstrated that this was as good as a thoroughbred could ever be.
Surely you can't run up a sequence like that by being lucky with the clock every single time.
To be honest, going back to the previous summer there'd be a case for calling him an all-time great just on the basis of that extraordinary 2yo career - the 8l demolition of Stop The Music in the Laurel Futurity, for instance.
Apologies if all this is just repeating what's in the the movie. I still haven't got round to seeing it. But to me Secretariat and the clock are like Arkle and the weights - they demonstrated that this was as good as a thoroughbred could ever be.
The movie is a Disney effort, Screaming, so it's a formula movie, really, and strangely, it's directly aimed at the conservative, Christian Right family audience in America. It is topped and tailed by a quotation from the Book of Job and a famous gospel song from the Edwin Hawkins singers -- the horse unites America across the generations and the "races" 
and Penny Chenery runs her course despite various struggles and temptations.
It ain't any kind of documentary...
and Penny Chenery runs her course despite various struggles and temptations.It ain't any kind of documentary...
According to a quick google.....SEABISCUIT took $148 million at the box office.....and SECRETARIAT took $60 million...
The low budget RUFFIAN starring Sam Shepard is the better movie IMO.
I watched Secretariat's Belmont Stakes win listed as 2:24.0.
Using my stopwatch I timed it at 2:26.85, but perhaps I was a little slow.
Using my stopwatch I timed it at 2:26.85, but perhaps I was a little slow.
It might be the run-up to the timer that is the difference, but do the keep the timer in the same place every year.
And the piece I posted above how they calculate where the start would have been if the timer was in the right place ..... and then voting for a time .... and listening to the owner who wants a record time.
He won the race. I'm not sure about much else.
And the piece I posted above how they calculate where the start would have been if the timer was in the right place ..... and then voting for a time .... and listening to the owner who wants a record time.
He won the race. I'm not sure about much else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncUjh4zuhI
tame impala - the less i know the better - 20% tempo reduction...
tame impala - the less i know the better - 20% tempo reduction...
Does that mean Secretariat could now run the Belmont faster if the video was speeded up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJzfuNoyyU
SHAREEF DANCER IRISH DERBY...
Wot u get for this, Kincsem?
SHAREEF DANCER IRISH DERBY...
Wot u get for this, Kincsem?
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