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.

In 1973, Secretariat won the Triple Crown, breaking the record time in each of the three races. As those genes were passed on, so too were the horses' winning ways. Last year, every last Kentucky ...

Secretariat's family tree spans almost the entire world of modern thoroughbred horse racing. That includes the 2026 Kentucky Derby, in which 19 of the 20 horses competing can claim to be descendants ...

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Eddie Sweat, Secretariat’s handler and groomer, was with the horse everyday for more than two years. The inspirational relationship and horse’s unprecedented success translates into a story of ...

From the Middle Ages onward, the study of the nobility has tended to focus on the male lineage. This attitude has often carried over to equine royalty, with much attention paid to male lines. But ...

Secretariat (1970-89) was the winner of the 1973 Triple Crown and is widely considered to be one of the greatest Thoroughbred race horses of all time. His times in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont ...

They are the keepers of the legend, the tellers of the tale. Four men, one woman. One living, four gone. It has been 50 years since Secretariat won the Triple Crown (the first in 25 years at the time; ...

Fifty years ago today, announcer Chic Anderson famously described Secretariat as “moving like a tremendous machine” as the colt ran to a 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes. The victory on June 9, ...