The Untold Secret Behind Secretariats 31 Length Belmont Record

In 1973, a chestnut colt ran a mile and a half in two minutes and twenty-four seconds. Fifty-three years later, nobody has come within two seconds of it. Every record in horse racing is temporary. Tracks get faster, breeding gets sharper, training gets more precise and eventually the number falls. All except this one. The Belmont Stakes record has now outlived the men who set it, the crowd that watched it, and even the racetrack itself. This is the story of how a horse the experts had already filed under "sprinter" produced the single most dominant performance in the history of American sport. And of the thing nobody measured until sixteen years later, on a table in Kentucky, that finally explained it.