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Message: [QUOTE="Golden Husky, post: 2749428, member: 8090"] Chic Anderson's call is a part of racing legend, now. Sadly, only in his late forties, Chic died about five years after that call. Secretariat's appeal extended well beyond horse racing. His image appeared on the covers of [I]Time[/I], [I]Newsweek[/I], and [I]Sports Illustrated [/I]in the same week and he was so popular that Penny Chenery had to hire the William Morris Agency just to handle his mail. Interestingly, had not Christopher Chenery died and Penny needed money to settle her father's estate, the plan was to race Secretariat at four, including a trip to Paris for the Arc de Triomphe. Given that Secretariat set a course record the first time he ran on grass, I have little doubt he would have been difficult to beat at Longchamp. As Charles Hatton of the [I]Daily Racing Form [/I]wrote, "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." [/QUOTE]