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...insights to Clark, whose previous exposure to horse racing consisted of infrequent visits ("about once every four years") to the race track. But Writer Havemann was right at home. A former TIME editor who began writing college textbooks nine years ago. Havemann is the son of a onetime jockey. He placed his first bet at the age of twelve, bought his first race horse in 1957-that is, as soon as he was financially able-now he owns a stable of six. He once competed against Mrs. Tweedy, but his best horse lost by a head to Cicada, the famous...
...only the ninth horse in 91 years to accomplish the grand slam. The odds against any modern horse finishing first in all three races have grown longer every year. When Citation did it, he was one of about 6,000 three-year-old thoroughbreds on the books of the Jockey Club. Flat racing has become far more popular and populous since then, and Secretariat started out with about 25,000 contemporaries, all potential competitors. Further, the three major races, bunched within five weeks, present different problems in terms of length and race track surfaces. Yet, the chalk players have such...
...superhorse? His is a riches-to-riches story, a compound of good genes, good training and good luck. He has been particularly fortunate in his three human partners: Principal Owner Penny Tweedy, proprietress of The Meadow farm in Virginia, and her two French-Canadian colleagues, Trainer Lucien Laurin and Jockey Ron Turcotte (see box next page...
Opening Blow. The first race, finally run at Aqueduct on the Fourth of July last year, was part disaster, part triumph. The disaster occurred coming out of the starting gate, when another horse wheeled into Secretariat and knocked him sideways. "If he wasn't so strong," the jockey said afterward, "he would have gone right down." The triumph was that after being slammed completely out of contention, Secretariat closed with a rush, made up seven or eight lengths in the last quarter-mile, and finished fourth...
This was the last time the horse has ever been out of the money. In fact, he never finished behind another horse in all the rest of his nine starts in '72, although once his number was taken down for a foul when Jockey Turcotte used the whip on him for the first time and the startled Secretariat ducked into another horse...