Is Secretariat really the best an horse in racing history? Contrarian patricians of Sup Forums, tell me if I'm wrong

Is Secretariat really the best an horse in racing history? Contrarian patricians of Sup Forums, tell me if I'm wrong.

doesn't he still have the record? i assume he's the best yeah

it was a different era, sporots science is bertter, blacks are allowed in the races now, defensive schemes are much better today

ya

american pharaoh comes close but secretariat is still goat

>not Kauto Star

>American Horse
>GOAT
kek

Not a elite, Flacco makes more money

>you will die alone and forgotten
>a horse will be remembered for centuries

hold me Sup Forums

you can be rememberered forever if you kill someone important like zeus

Bomb the plane the Jamaican athletics team uses on their way to Rio and you'll be remembered forever senpai.

Yes, he was the greatest racing horse ever and it's not even close. He also had a heart nearly three times the size of a normal racing horse's heart. It was a defect tracing back to one of his ancestors dating to the 1700's.

American horses arent even athletes

that's what they said about lance armstrong but it turns out it was just epo

i bet secretaryit used epo EQUINEPO

And Irish "people" aren't even humans.

As Salam al Australia

a kebab and 40 virgins to you my friend

Daily reminder that Barbaro was a better an horse than American Pharoah and would've broken the triple crown drought if he wasn't sabotaged.

how was he sabotaged is this just soem crackpot conspiracy

Pharlap

he won by like 40 lengths, and then he did it again, and again, right?

so yeah

Did American Pharoah shatter his leg in the Preakness?

No? I guess American Pharoah is the better horse then.

He holds the record for all three triple crown races, which is pretty insane

post Xavi quotes on Secretariat

This picture gives me goosebumps

A god among horses.

There's a weird * for the preakness but he's got all 3 triple crown records.

>yfw he was still accelerating throughout the entire race at Belmont

the only horse who knew he was the GOAT and raced like it

He's the greatest athlete of all time

This.

No, that would be Pie-O-My.

Man O'War was the GOAT, his bloodline goes through both Secretariat AND seabiscuit.

Maybe Phar Lap as well, but only raced once on American soil before being poisoned so the jury is out.

Do you think he knew he was goat?

My nigga knew he was the goat. He would show off and trash talk like a motherfucker.
My dude fucked like 3 mares a night. Some were still only foals

did the defect get passed on to his children?

Black Caviar, dipshits

man 'o war

Frankel is superior

this is the equivalent of chamberlain putting up 100 on 5' white guys. cool but meaningless given the quality of the competition in that era

I mean, he still ran the fastest time at all three triple crown races. I'm guessing he has other records as well outside of those three.

literally who?

1973 Marlboro Cup Invitational (Defunct)
1 1⁄8 miles in 1:45:40

1973 Man o' War Stakes
1 1⁄2 miles in 2:24:80 (race is now shorter)

1973 Kentucky Derby
1 1⁄4 miles in 1:59.40

1973 Preakness Stakes
1 3⁄16 miles in 1:53.00

1973 Belmont Stakes
1 1⁄2 miles in 2:24.00 (won by 31 lengths)

Those are the records that still stand to this day.

>a horse with the 2nd fastest Derby time in history and the 3rd fastest Preakness time in history is weak competition

I feel sorry for Sham. If he wasn't born in the same year as Secretariat, he'd definitely be a triple crown winner. To this day he still doesn't get any respect.

this proves how wrong you are.
Times are more objective then competing against different competitions in basketball. And I imagine we know more about how to make a horse faster now than back then. this just shows how freakish the animal is

yeah
pharoah and affirmed were still like 2+ seconds slower than secretariat in the belmont
the horse was the definition of a genetic freak

Hidalgo was better

25-0 with 15 group 1 wins is a pretty good argument in favour.

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There was no doping testing for horses back then. Now the horses are meticulously tested. Secretariat without steroids = just another lame loser.

newfag
horse racing is largely agreed upon as a sport

What an athlete