America needs another Secretariat | Opinion
Secretariat was a controversy-proof superstar to watch and appreciate without the residue of any political division or partisanship. Secretariat just did what he was good at: He ran. And people gravitated to his remarkable talent. When you watch the grainy footage of Secretariat’s win at the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to win the Triple Crown, it looks unworldly.
In 1988, on a family vacation to the East Coast, my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me that we had passed Claiborne Farm, the place where Secretariat retired to stud. It took me a minute to get the sleep out of my eyes in the back seat of our Ford Thunderbird. My father whispered, “Secretariat lives somewhere around here.”
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