The Parsonage

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No one in the history of the world has ever felt what jockey Ron Turcotte felt 50 years ago, on June 9, 1973, when he rode a three-year-old chestnut c**t named Secretariat to his immortal 31-length win in the Belmont Stakes. No jockey, before or since, has ever been that far ahead in a race to determine a Triple Crown, aboard a horse so relentlessly dominant, in front of so many fans in full throat at the implausibility of what they were seeing with their own eyes.

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Secretariat arrived at Lexington’s Blue Grass Field on Nov. 12, 1973, to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris. A week earlier, he had taken his first plane ride, to Ontario, where he won his final race, the Canadian International at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. After winning the Triple Crown, Secretariat ran six more races, winning four and finishing second in the other two. After retiring to stud, he remained at Claiborne until his death in 1989 at age 19. Herald-Leader Archive Photo