“So, this is the town where it all went down, Where they first got to notice Big Red. Where he showed them, of course, He was more than a horse. As all the historians said.” — Ode to Secretariat Three ...

Three days before Secretariat’s last prep race before the 1973 Kentucky Derby, the exercise rider on the colt’s back got one hell of a shock. This colt, who lived to run, wanted no part of the workout ...