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...since Citation turned the trick in 1948 has a thoroughbred been so heavily favored to win racing's Triple Crown. The wonder horse called Secretariat had won impressive victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Still, going into the $150,200 Belmont Stakes, the last and longest (1½ miles) of the three classics, the strapping chestnut colt was bucking the very formidable odds of history...
...expected, Secretariat and Sham staged an early head-to-head duel. Then, with his long, beautifully rhythmic strides, Secretariat began to pull away...
First it was by one length, then five, then ten. Coming into the stretch, Jockey Ron Turcotte did not bother to go to the whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont...
...shock. At issue was a "what if" exercise conducted over an eight-week period this spring by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a 21-nation group created to coordinate worldwide responses to future oil crises. The high-stakes exercise began with a simulated telegram sent by the IEA secretariat in Paris announcing that 8 million bbl. daily had vanished from world pipelines. Reason: a hypothetical blockage of the Strait of Hormuz (not too farfetched in light of the three-year-old Iran-Iraq war) and sabotage of Nigerian oil facilities...
...fashion of the '80s is not to wait past May to sniff that none of these goats is Secretariat. It is quite enough to be Sunny's Halo...