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Message: [QUOTE="Golden Husky, post: 4312656, member: 8090"] So, I'm sitting in the press box, a couple of hours after the race, after everyone has filed their stories and Charles Hatton, the dean of turf writers and my mentor says to me, "You know what you just witnessed, kid?" "Yeah, I know, Charlie," I reply. "No, you don't," he says. "Wait 50 years, until you've never seen another horse as good as Secretariat, and [I]then [/I]you'll understand." He was right, of course. In writing about Secretariat, Hatton penned this: [I]"Exterminator and Man o' War have come and gone since the present writer's first acquaintance with the sport. Impressions of longstanding tend to become fixed and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. But Secretariat is the most capable horse we ever saw, and geriatrics defeat any thought of ever seeing his like again. Secretariat was the Horse of the Century and his only reference point is himself."[/I] [/QUOTE]