I had never seen this race, but heard about it in a lecture by Bill Nack in which he said Secretariat did not appear to be himself. Very easy to see what he meant in this video. Secretariat definitely appears to be under stress, when normally he makes it look effortless. Poor Red. Doesn't a pre-race vet check include inspecting their mouth?
Angle Light did run the race of his life with everything in his favor that day. I thought I read somewhere, maybe Nacks' book, that Pincay was waiting for Big Reds run so was thinking nothing of the horse in front of him. When he realized Red wasn't coming it was too late.
They didn't know he had an abcess before the race did they? They found it after the race, I thought? I would have shied away from the bit, too if my mouth was sore like that. You know how bad a sore tooth feels,well think of how that horse felt hurting like that. You can't blame him, though. He did try.
Wow. The quintessential "dark horse"! Never even heard of him. Nice race. He outran Secretariat AND Sham, start to finish! Oh, well...Secretariat probably had his mind on some cute lil' filly back at the barn... ;-))
Nice vintage footage, thanks for posting this gem! Jockey Ron Turcotte and others did not know of Sec's painful abscess in his mouth (upper lip) until a while after this race, as per Bill Nack's book, "Secretariat:. Turcotte, as per Nack, was euphoric when he (Turcotte) found out about the abscess, since he could now pinpoint the reason for Sec's lacklustre performance in the Wood. It seems this abscess was a secret and nobody was to know??
I had never seen this race, but heard about it in a lecture by Bill Nack in which he said Secretariat did not appear to be himself. Very easy to see what he meant in this video. Secretariat definitely appears to be under stress, when normally he makes it look effortless. Poor Red. Doesn't a pre-race vet check include inspecting their mouth?
Secretariat showed tremendous courage and resolve running in such pain from that lip abcess.
Angle Light did run the race of his life with everything in his favor that day. I thought I read somewhere, maybe Nacks' book, that Pincay was waiting for Big Reds run so was thinking nothing of the horse in front of him. When he realized Red wasn't coming it was too late.
They didn't know he had an abcess before the race did they? They found it after the race, I thought? I would have shied away from the bit, too if my mouth was sore like that. You know how bad a sore tooth feels,well think of how that horse felt hurting like that. You can't blame him, though. He did try.
Wow. The quintessential "dark horse"! Never even heard of him.
Nice race. He outran Secretariat AND Sham, start to finish! Oh, well...Secretariat probably had his mind on some cute lil' filly back at the barn... ;-))
Nice vintage footage, thanks for posting this gem!
Jockey Ron Turcotte and others did not know of Sec's painful abscess in his mouth (upper lip) until a while after this race, as per Bill Nack's book, "Secretariat:.
Turcotte, as per Nack, was euphoric when he (Turcotte) found out about the abscess, since he could now pinpoint the reason for Sec's lacklustre performance in the Wood. It seems this abscess was a secret and nobody was to know??