when you get to heaven, this is the kind of scene you expect to see and while this isn't heaven, it's close, these are the last days of secretariats, life at the lush legendary calumet farm and they compared him to things like freight trains and Indy cars and Olympian gods. Just all manner of descriptions because he was so fabulous. He was so beyond what anybody had ever experienced. Secretariat is the first horse with a Nielsen rating. Vietnam weary America needs a hero. So a horse's plastered on time and newsweek and it isn't mister Ed Big Red wins eight straight races as a two year old is voted horse of the year and is then syndicated for $6 million but he loses his first start at age three and suddenly the $6 million horse is a hoax unless he wins the Kentucky Derby. Secretariat under armor. Secretariat gets off to a slow start last in fact, but like a locomotive, he gained steam and runs every quarter mile faster than the one before. Secretariat is fourth and moving up on the outside and is now third and moving at the leaders as they come for the head of the stretch stretch. Secretariat secretariat on the outside to take the lead sham holding in second. It's secretariat moving away. Yes, invite sam then on the outside, our native, that's where it's going to be. Secretariat bye. Secretariat shatters the Derby record in 1 59 and 2/5 seconds Penny Chenery gets her picture taken to just in awe of the fact that it has happened and your horse and your colors has crossed the line first and it's just an indescribable feeling Of joy and pride. And thank God his secretary had finished. His answer is no. He goes from last to first to win the Preakness and the Belmont by 31 lengths. Secretariat becomes the equine version of Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman secretariat. I just had charisma, he was very aware of his public. If he heard the shutter, he would pose and uh, never got tired of being admired and um, he just, he showed off for his fans and He was a star and knew it less than a month after Secretariat poses for these pictures, he dies. Only then do they discover why he was such a super horse when they did his autopsy when he died in 1989. They found that his heart was considerably larger than the average thoroughbreds. So there was something actually physiological in him that was propelling him forward