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[QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2750229, member: 250"]
My second favorite quote coming out of Secretariat's Triple Crown Belmont also was reported by Heywood Hale Brown.  He recounts how when Secretariat was led off after the race to the back side the stewarts came to perform a saliva test and a fan said:  "Look at them, they're treating him as if he was just another horse."

My family is deep into horses.  My youngest was 4th in the college nationals as a freshman in equitation, but her strength was jumpers.  Me, I just tagged along and learned to ride to stay involved.  I use to ride a 16-3 thoroughbred and my favorite thing with him was to gallop over a varied terrain course around a small lake in North Salem New York.  We'd thunder up a moderate incline - that was were we'd really let it all hang out - and it was like you were just suspended in air, the wind rushing by.  Then one day as we crested the hill he dead stopped and I did a cartwheel over his head and came down running - love to have a video of that.  I came to a stop and looked back and he's just standing there with a total poker face.  He was probably thinking "if you hadn't dropped the reins and kept your leg on me that wouldn't have happened ....jerk."
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