Horses - Secretariat's Maiden Races292035290137


In this write-up we're going to take a short appear at Secretariat's early races in his career that led up to a triple crown winner.

Secretariat was a winner, but he didn't start off out that way.  His quite [http://www.way2bet.com.au/form-guides horse racing fields] initial maiden race was on the 4th of July in 1972.  There was a lot of fanfare surrounding this race.  The massive bad red racehorse was supposed to consume up the field alive.  All the speak about his lineage and all the rah, rah, rah, couldn't stop a 4th spot finish.  Oh he was chasing after the leader as they came down the finish line but in no way could catch him.  In spite of the disappointing 4th location finish, owner Penny Chenery and trainer Lucien Laurin, along with the Meadow Stable crew, need to have noticed anything particular on that Independence Day.

Twelve horses had been entered into that race on that day at the Aqueduct Race Course.  For those who do not know this, a maiden race is a race where all the horses are non winners.  Not only had been these twelve horses non winners but 5 of them had never even been in a horse race.  Whilst this race was viewed as a understanding knowledge for the young Secretariat, it more than showed what he was capable of performing.

In this race Secretariat was a 3-1 odds to win.  Ironically, this was the longest odds he would ever go off at in his complete career and it was only time that he ran a race and did not win, place or show.  Even even though this was a maiden race the stands had been packed on this day.  For true racing fans this was a historical event and one that they weren't going to miss.  Of course if you ask folks to this day, there will be many much more who will have claimed to have been there than truly had been on hand.  Type of like Woodstock.

Even though Secretariat did not win his very first race, his winless profession wouldn't last extended.  Eleven days following his racing debut at Aqueduct he was back at that exact same race course as the favorite to win.

He got off to a shaky start off in this race but showed some real energy down the stretch.  He came out of the gate 6th and instantly went for victory, not pacing himself at all.  Regrettably he did not break out effectively and was rushed into contention.  He quickly went from 6th to 4th until ultimately he was very first by about a half a length.  Around mid stretch he truly took command and went on to win the race by 4 full lengths or the distance of 4 horses.  The rider of Secretariat for his 1st win was veteran jockey Ben Feliciano.

Secretariat had his first of what would be a lot of wins.  He didn't disappoint anybody on this day, coming in as the beloved and winning effortlessly.  Immediately after the race, Secretariat headed for Saratoga Springs, New York.  At Saratoga, everyone's eyes were on what was going to turn out to be 1 of the greatest race horses of all time.