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09-10-2010, 12:34 PM
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Secretariat's Belmont
I know he ran faster each step of the way in the Derby but what were his clips in the Belmont?
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09-10-2010, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by tzipi
I know he ran faster each step of the way in the Derby but what were his clips in the Belmont?
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Fairly uniform but fast
quarter-mile fractions of 23 3/5, 46 1/5, and 1:09 4/5 1:34 1/5 1:59 then 2:24
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09-10-2010, 12:38 PM
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23 3/5, 22 3/5, 23 3/5, 24 2/5, 24 4/5, 25
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09-10-2010, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 46zilzal
Fairly uniform but fast
quarter-mile fractions of 23 3/5, 46 1/5, and 1:09 4/5 1:34 1/5 1:59 then 2:2424
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Thanks Zil and CJ 
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09-10-2010, 12:41 PM
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many a sprinter doesn't finish in 25 and he did it after all that distance
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09-10-2010, 12:53 PM
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The splits are amazing...yes, he was slowing down. But he was slowing down much slower than others slow down, esp after those early 1/4s. 
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09-10-2010, 02:12 PM
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Galloping out he broke Man O' War's record for 1 5/8. Also, no eighth was slower than 12 4/5.
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09-10-2010, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Pine Tree Lane
Galloping out he broke Man O' War's record for 1 5/8. Also, no eighth was slower than 12 4/5.
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Nope that was Swap's record
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09-10-2010, 02:17 PM
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Corrected. Thank you.
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09-10-2010, 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Pine Tree Lane
Corrected. Thank you.
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For many years Belmont never ran 1 5/8ths so that the TRACK RECORD THERE, not world's record, would retain the immortal's name in the program and since that (Secretariat's Belmont) was a gallop out it did not count anyway
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09-10-2010, 03:07 PM
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I remember when 1:09 was called out for the 3/4 that we were in for something special . That's the first I've heard about the record breaking gallopout . Amazing !!
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09-10-2010, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett
I remember when 1:09 was called out for the 3/4 that we were in for something special . That's the first I've heard about the record breaking gallopout . Amazing !!
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Big Red's ten furlong time of 159 flat in the Belmont broke the track record at Belmont as well. It never went down in the history books of course but it is startling. In 1987 or 1988 Alysheba set the track record at 159.2 in the all out battle with Forty Niner in the Woodward. Secretariat, if he was watching the race in his stall over some mash, must have said "boy you guys look tired. I went faster than that 15 years ago without breaking a sweat and I still had another quarter mile to run!"
Amazing animal.
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09-10-2010, 03:14 PM
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25 in the final quarter. Pathetic. Secretariat just wasn't a 12 furlong horse.
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09-10-2010, 03:49 PM
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You guys think he was on the PED's
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09-10-2010, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Alacrity
You guys think he was on the PED's
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what is a ped?
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