Is Secretariat really the best an horse in racing history? Contrarian patricians of /sp/, tell me if I'm wrong.
>>67814799
doesn't he still have the record? i assume he's the best yeah
it was a different era, sporots science is bertter, blacks are allowed in the races now, defensive schemes are much better today
>>67814799
ya
american pharaoh comes close but secretariat is still goat
>>67814799
>not Kauto Star
>American Horse
>GOAT
kek
Not a elite, Flacco makes more money
>you will die alone and forgotten
>a horse will be remembered for centuries
hold me /sp/
>>67814883
you can be rememberered forever if you kill someone important like zeus
>>67814883
Bomb the plane the Jamaican athletics team uses on their way to Rio and you'll be remembered forever senpai.
Yes, he was the greatest racing horse ever and it's not even close. He also had a heart nearly three times the size of a normal racing horse's heart. It was a defect tracing back to one of his ancestors dating to the 1700's.
American horses arent even athletes
>>67814910
that's what they said about lance armstrong but it turns out it was just epo
i bet secretaryit used epo EQUINEPO
>>67814919
And Irish "people" aren't even humans.
>>67814908
As Salam al Australia
>>67814937
a kebab and 40 virgins to you my friend
Daily reminder that Barbaro was a better an horse than American Pharoah and would've broken the triple crown drought if he wasn't sabotaged.
>>67815009
how was he sabotaged is this just soem crackpot conspiracy
>>67814799
Pharlap
he won by like 40 lengths, and then he did it again, and again, right?
so yeah
>>67815009
Did American Pharoah shatter his leg in the Preakness?
No? I guess American Pharoah is the better horse then.
>>67815328
He holds the record for all three triple crown races, which is pretty insane
post Xavi quotes on Secretariat
This picture gives me goosebumps
>>67815403
A god among horses.
>>67814801
There's a weird * for the preakness but he's got all 3 triple crown records.
>>67815328
>>67815380
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>>67815403
>yfw he was still accelerating throughout the entire race at Belmont
the only horse who knew he was the GOAT and raced like it
He's the greatest athlete of all time
>>67814908
This.
>>67814799
No, that would be Pie-O-My.
Man O'War was the GOAT, his bloodline goes through both Secretariat AND seabiscuit.
Maybe Phar Lap as well, but only raced once on American soil before being poisoned so the jury is out.
>>67815403
Do you think he knew he was goat?
>>67817200
My nigga knew he was the goat. He would show off and trash talk like a motherfucker.
My dude fucked like 3 mares a night. Some were still only foals
>>67814910
did the defect get passed on to his children?
Black Caviar, dipshits
>>67814799
man 'o war
>>67814799
Frankel is superior
>>67815403
this is the equivalent of chamberlain putting up 100 on 5' white guys. cool but meaningless given the quality of the competition in that era
>>67821036
I mean, he still ran the fastest time at all three triple crown races. I'm guessing he has other records as well outside of those three.
>>67817027
literally who?
>>67821275
1973 Marlboro Cup Invitational (Defunct)
1 1⁄8 miles in 1:45:40
1973 Man o' War Stakes
1 1⁄2 miles in 2:24:80 (race is now shorter)
1973 Kentucky Derby
1 1⁄4 miles in 1:59.40
1973 Preakness Stakes
1 3⁄16 miles in 1:53.00
1973 Belmont Stakes
1 1⁄2 miles in 2:24.00 (won by 31 lengths)
Those are the records that still stand to this day.
>>67821036
>a horse with the 2nd fastest Derby time in history and the 3rd fastest Preakness time in history is weak competition
I feel sorry for Sham. If he wasn't born in the same year as Secretariat, he'd definitely be a triple crown winner. To this day he still doesn't get any respect.
>>67821036
this proves how wrong you are.
>>67821910
Times are more objective then competing against different competitions in basketball. And I imagine we know more about how to make a horse faster now than back then. this just shows how freakish the animal is
>>67822203
yeah
pharoah and affirmed were still like 2+ seconds slower than secretariat in the belmont
the horse was the definition of a genetic freak
>>67814799
Hidalgo was better
>>67819468
25-0 with 15 group 1 wins is a pretty good argument in favour.
There was no doping testing for horses back then. Now the horses are meticulously tested. Secretariat without steroids = just another lame loser.
>>67830382
newfag
horse racing is largely agreed upon as a sport
>>67821910
What an athlete
