America didn't wait for the 1973 Belmont Stakes to anoint Secretariat a hero. The chestnut's winning combination of looks, power, speed, and charisma captured a nation desperate to find someone who ...

“Secretariat” has a great story to tell — one seemingly made for the movies — and if it loses a little something in the telling, it isn’t the horse’s fault. Directed by Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”), ...

Forty years ago, the legendary race horse Secretariat ran the 1 1/8-mile Kentucky Derby in 1:59.40, propelling him on his way to a Triple Crown victory five weeks later, capped by an incredible ...

Jockey Ron Turcotte hangs on as Secretariat romps along the final stretch before winning the Triple Crown in 1973. Secretariat’s 2:24 Belmont time is safe; no other horse has run under 2:26 (even that ...

Slightly canted, he lurched from the gate, the face from Time and Newsweek angling to the left. For an instant, the eyes stared into cameras to the left of the rail, and the privacy of the deep ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More than any Kentucky Derby in the last half-century, Saturday’s festivities at Churchill Downs will illustrate why horse racing is the rare sport without a simmering GOAT debate.

YOU’RE PROBABLY NOTICING THIS AMAZING OUTFIT THAT’S OVER HERE. FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, JESSICA WHITEHEAD HAS BEEN THE CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS OF THE KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM. AND SO I’VE PULLED A COUPLE ...

Every home has its household gods and in our rather pagan one their names were Ruffian and Secretariat. It was our horse-race-loving mother who taught my brothers and me the litany of these great ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, thoughts naturally turn to matters of the heart. For fans of Virginia native and triple crown winner Secretariat, that has a two-fold meaning. Secretariat continues to ...

Maybe we should calm down about the “superhorse” talk regarding American Pharoah, because the speed figures are in and he’s below average. I believe in the figures. I have a friend who devised his own ...