A Tremendous Machine: Secretariat in the Belmont
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There were three Triple Crowns in the 1930s. There were four more in the 1940s. It was still a big deal, but it wasn’t rare. It was one of those things that racing fans didn’t get every year but they did expect from time to time to see – a 3-year-old horse so much the better of his peers that he wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. But after 1948, for the next 24 years they wouldn’t see another one. Seven different times during that quarter-century a horse won the first two legs. But each horse was unable to make it across the finish line at "Big Sandy" first.