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 ...

Before Secretariat would win the Triple Crown and go on to become the greatest thoroughbred known to man, Laffit Pincay Jr. believed he would be the winning jockey in the 1973 Kentucky Derby. Two ...

A life-size bronze sculpture of Secretariat running in the field at the legendary Claiborne Farm—along with a three-story mural of him winning the 1973 Kentucky Derby—are the centerpieces of a new ...

Fifty years after his Triple Crown triumph, Secretariat and his legacy still loom large over the Kentucky Derby. His sub-2-minute sprint around the Churchill Downs track has been approached just once ...

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 ...

One horse stands above the rest over the course of the previous 151 runnings of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs: Secretariat, the famed 1973 winner. Secretariat, jockeyed by Ron Turcotte, set a ...

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; ...

“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 ...