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Originally Posted by MLC
My older sister never liked Secretariat, or rather never really respected him until that Belmont. During the running of the Preakness that year, I got to her house right after the field entered the backstretch and she said to me that it was Sham's race. When I saw the replay, I realized why she said that; if it had been any other horse making that move around the clubhouse turn, she would have been right. That race, as much as the Belmont, marked Secretariat as truly something special. After the Belmont, she called me up and said that he was a wonder horse, but she still didn't like him. Her favorite was Seattle Slew and before that Nashua. She won't hear of any case for Swaps maybe being the better racehorse.
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lol about swaps. they were both good. really good. swaps had an amazing year at four. records set everywhere. but nashua....hell, i wouldn't want to have to separate those two. east vs west came to life with those two.
as for their derby, that was a pure jocks race. run it ten more times, maybe nashua comes out on top those next ten. maybe...