Photos: Secretariat's 1973 Kentucky Derby run set stage for Triple Crown win
david baratz, usa today
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Secretariat’s Kentucky Derby win on May 5, 1973, was the start of a legendary Triple Crown run. Photographers at the Louisville Courier-Journal were on hand to capture Secretariat’s historic 1973 win at Churchill Downs.
Secretariat started in the back of the pack and then charged ahead to finish the mile and a quarter race in 1 minute, 59 2/5 seconds, a record that still stands today. While Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978), American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018) have succeeded Secretariat as Triple Crown winners, none of them came close to Secretariat’s record-setting times at the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
Fifty years later, Secretariat’s times in all three Triple Crown race still stand atop the record books:
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