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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Secretariat Time in '73 Preakness Could be Changed

Secretariat's owner has asked the Maryland Racing Commission to conduct a hearing about changing the time of the horse's winning run in the 1973 Preakness Stakes.

Penny Chenery, along with Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas, say advances in modern video technology will prove Secretariat ran the 1 3/16 mile race in 1 minute, 53 and 2/5 seconds. That would have been a record at the time and would match the standing record for the Preakness.

The commission will consider the request for a hearing at its meeting on June 19th.

Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973. His time in the Preakness was originally clocked electronically at 1:55, then changed to 1.54 2/5.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

? Really. He won the triple crown who cares about the time.

Anonymous said...

39 lengths. Jockey who rode him is in a wheel chair now.

Anonymous said...

Why do horse races have times in 5ths when electronic timing can record into the thousandths? I know it was the 70's when Secretariat ran, but even then, they had timing to the nearest tenth, unless it was an even number of tenths that was reduced to fifths. Just had to rant.