Secretariat still holds the fastest ½ mile, ¾ mile, 1 mile, 1 ¼ miles and 1 ½ mile times in a Belmont Stakes Race. Sec holds the largest margin of victory 31 in the Belmont. He ran a 12+ seconds furlong for all 12 furlongs that day. Unbelievable! It is perhaps the single greatest performance in horse racing history. It is hard to find ANY fault in it. I consider myself lucky to have met Secretariat while he was racing and I met MOW when he was an old man like me lol. Only MOW in the 1920 Dwyer compares well to Secretariat’s Belmont. MOW ran faster for 6 fl(on a LOT slower track) than Sec and had to KEEP contesting the pace with J.P. Grier who unlike SHAM did not fold up after 6 fl. JP Grier kept coming at MOW for 1 mile and 100 yards. The longer the pace is contested the WORSE it is for the horses involved. MOW set a world record that day in the “RACE OF THE CENTURY”.
