Saturday, August 17, 2013

Here's why we have the Secretariat Stakes today...

Today is the 37th running of the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park. Here is a fun video, with live commentary from Lucien Laurin and Penny Chenery Tweedy, from 1973 of Secretariat in the first and only running of the Arlington Invitational, which was restyled as the Secretariat in 1974: