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Originally Posted by randallscott35
Either way, people miss that 31 lengths is b/c no one ran on behind him.
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Sure - but it was as amazing a display of sustained speed as anything maybe in history.
Sham tried to go with him and he stopped in dramatic fashion far before the wire.
Had Forego been entered in that Belmont - and sat off the Secretariat/Sham battle in a perfect spot ... he still would have been trounced despite the perfect setup. Secretariat simply never softened up. Obviously the winning margin would have been only about one-third of what it was.