All-time favorite Preakness?

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

I was at Pimlico to see the Silver Charm race, amazing finish! But my all time favorite has to be the 73 race when Secretariat suddenly decided to take over on the clubhouse turn, railbirds at Pimlico still talk about that move!

Good call, I think that move was the craziest damn thing I have ever seen.
Making a last to first move on the FIRST turn of a 9.5f, G1 race.....is just nuts. I don't think any other horse in the history of the sport could have accelerated like that, and had enough left in the tank to pull away from a horse of Sham's caliber in the stretch.
The '89 race is my all time favorite race, but the '73 race is my all-time favorite performance by one horse.
I better include that video in this thread as well: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...1973+Preakness