Secretariat is obviously one of the most historied equines in the history of horse racing .
He won the Triple Crown in 1973 , place records in all three of the races that comprise the serial — the Kentucky Derby , the Preakness Stakes , and the Belmont Stakes . He was also the field of ahit moviea few years ago , and , of form , enjoyed regular appearances onThe recent Late Show with Craig Ferguson :
But a racehorse has a relatively short vocation , and a relatively longsighted life — they can inhabit up to 30 years . So what happened to Secretariat when his winner ’s roofy Clarence Day were over ?
Well , for one thing , he spent a lot of time breeding . The owner of winning thoroughbreds can make large bucks this room . One of Secretariat ’s sons , Canadian Bound , was the first horse to sell for more than a million dollars , bringing in$1.5 millionin 1976 . Unfortunately , Canadian Bound did n’t live up to the gamey expectations — in fact , noneof the 600 horses Secretariat sired really did . The next generations have fared a bit well ; the buck ’s cracking - granddaughter won the Belmont Stakes in 2007 .
Though horsescanlive for three decades , sadly , Secretariat was n’t one of them . At the eld of 19 , the far-famed horse evolve laminitis , an inflammation of the tissue that bonds the hoof to the bone . The shape is abominable for the horse cavalry and super hard totreat . After a month of treatment did nothing to alleviate Secretariat ’s pain , the red-faced entire was euthanized on October 4 , 1989 . Buried at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky , the fable was given the pureness of being buried whole , a rarified occurrence for racehorses . Typically , the burialincludesjust the head , heart , and hooves .
By the elbow room , harmonize to owner Penny Chenery , the horse cavalry was name by her Father of the Church ’s escritoire , Elizabeth Ham . Ham suggest the name because she had formerly work for an American diplomat at the United Nations in Geneva , which was menage to the old League of Nationssecretariat . The name was actually their 6th selection — the first five ( sceptre , Royal Line , Something Special , Games of Chance , and Deo Volente ) were already beingused .
