Secretariat

Triple Crown winners have accomplished one of the rarest feats in horse racing: winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in the same year. Only 13 horses have done it since 1919, and Justify was the most recent winner in 2018. All 13 Triple Crown winners — horse, year, jockey, trainer # Horse …

Secretariat’s legend gets told the same way every time — big margins, famous calls, a 31-length Belmont. But the real case for Secretariat isn’t the margin. It’s the math. Fifty years later, the clock still hasn’t caught him. Not at Churchill Downs. Not at Belmont Park. Not even close. This is where the argument actually …