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Belmont Secretariat in 2:24  (1973)  Secretariat ran the record time of 2:24 in the 1973 Belmont  Stakes. His victory margin was 31 lengths ahead of his nearest  challenger.  His… world record time for the 1 1/2 miles distance is one of  the greatest moments in sports history.
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Secretariat (horse) He received the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old colt, and also was the 1972 Horse of the Year, a rare honor for a horse so young. At age three, Secretariat not only won the Triple Crown, he set speed records in all three races. His time in the Kentucky Derby still stands as the Churchill Downs track record for 11⁄4 miles, and his time in the Belmont Stakes stands as the American record for 11⁄2 miles on the dirt. His controversial time in the Preakness Stakes was eventually recognized as a stakes record in 2012.
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Belmont Stakes 2016: Post time, TV schedule, contenders and more The Belmont Stakes will go to the post at approximately 6:37 p.m. ET on Saturday. NBC will televise the event beginning at 5 p.m., and provide streaming coverage at NBC Sports Live Extra. You can watch coverage of the undercard on NBCSN beginning at 3 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra will steam that, as well.
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- Knapp Sets New Lap Record At PittRace on Witchkraft Yamaha R1. ROME, Ga. (July 21, 2016) – The successful season continued for Pirelli as Witchkraft Racing/Honda East Toledo’s Taylor Knapp set a new motorcycle track record during the WERA Series this past weekend at Pittsburgh International Raceway Complex on July 16-17.
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- Secretariat won by so far, against such a small field of just five horses, that comparisons to other races is not germane. Just five years later, Affirmed and Alydar would battle stride for stride, nostril for nostril for the length of the Belmont Park stretch in the 1978 Belmont. That, right there, could have been as remarkable a race as anyone has ever seen.
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- the conventional wisdom.... fastest sprint racer: Quarter Horse. fastest middle distance racer: Thoroughbred. fastest trotter: Standardbred. fastest endurance racer: Arabian.
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- A lot of anxiety, all this week.. Having won his last four races by more than 22 lengths, American Pharoah blazed through his final pre-Derby workout Sunday, ripping through five furlongs in 58.40 seconds. The performance was the final stamp of approval of the horse as the Derby favorite – and then some.
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Fastest speed for a race horse Fastest speed for a race horse. The highest race speed recorded over two furlongs is 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph) and was achieved by Winning Brew trained by Francis Vitale (United States), at the Penn National Race Course, Grantville, Pennsylvania, United States, on 14 May 2008. Winning Brew covered the quarter-mile (402 m, 2 furlongs) in 20.57 sec. She is a 2 year old filly thoroughbred. The record for 1½ miles (2,414 m) is 60.86 km/h (37.82 mph) by 3-year-old Hawkster at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, USA on 14 October 1989 with a time of 2min 22.8sec.
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- As he came down the stretch, American Pharoah never slowed, widening his lead to win going away in a time of 2:26.65 – the quickest Belmont time since 2001. The result gave triumphant closure to trainer Bob Baffert's 18-year quest to win the Triple Crown.he 52-year-old Egyptian immigrant had finished second in four Triple Crown races before this year – three times in the Derby (2009, '11 and '12) and once in the Belmont (‘12). One of Zayat's Derby runner-ups, Pioneerof The Nile, is the sire of American Pharoah.
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Belmont Stakes Horses 2015: Analyzing Top Contenders and Jockeys He, Baffert and much of the horse racing community hopes the third time is the charm. Let's take a look at the jockey-horse combination for two other highly regarded contenders in the 2015 Belmont Stakes. According to Odds Shark, American Pharoah is the odds-on favorite to win the Belmont Stakes at 5-6. However, Frosted and 30-year-old jockey Joel Rosario are in the mix at 11-2. Frosted had won all four of his races this year heading into the Kentucky Derby—including the Wood Memorial.
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Belmont Park Belmont Park. Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City limits. It first opened on May 4, 1905. It is typically open for racing from late April through mid-July (known as the Spring meet), and again from mid-September through late October (the Fall meet).
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Belmont Stakes Since 1931, the order of Triple Crown races has been the Kentucky Derby first, followed by the Preakness Stakes, and then the Belmont Stakes. Prior to 1931, eleven times the Preakness was run before the Derby. On May 12, 1917 and again on May 13, 1922, the Preakness and the Derby were run on the same day. On eleven occasions, the Belmont Stakes was run before the Preakness Stakes. The date of each event is now set by the Kentucky Derby, which is always held on the first Saturday in May. The Preakness Stakes is currently held two weeks later; and the Belmont Stakes is held three weeks after the Preakness (five weeks after the Derby).
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The 9 Fastest Runnings of the Kentucky Derby Northern Dancer has the third fastest Kentucky Derby win of all time at 2:00 flat. The Canadian-bred horse had an awesome 3-year-old season with wins in the Flamingo Stakes, Florida Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Preakness and the Queen's Plate.
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Sham (horse) In a field of six horses, Sham finished second to Secretariat by 2-½ lengths again. Before the race, Sham was given only bottled water to drink. Sham's time of 1:53 3/5 is tied for the fifth fastest in Preakness history.
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Where does American Pharoah rank among Triple Crown winners? Of course, he showed plenty in the Belmont. American Pharoah won with the sixth-fastest time (2:26.65) in the race's long history. Among the 12 Triple Crown winners, only Secretariat ran faster (2:24), setting a world record with what seemed a supernatural performance.
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- Hennessey Venom GT | World’s Fastest: 270.4 MPH Offered at $1.4 million Hennessey Performance (HPE) has built the last word in hypercars: the 1244-bhp Venom GT, an aluminum-chassis, carbon-bodied machine whose 7.0-liter twin-turbo aluminum-block V-8 will obliterate any other production car from 50 to well over 250 mph.
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6 Animals Faster Than Usain Bolt 3. Thoroughbred Racehorse. The fastest thoroughbred racehorse has reached top speeds of 55mph, almost double that of Usain Bolt’s 100m world record top speed. However, thoroughbred’s aren’t just fast, they’re also known for their stamina and can maintain a pace of 16 mph for 60 miles. Talk about the ultimate ultra marathoner. bigbendnow.com.
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"""SECRETARIAT"" Greatest Race Horse of All Time - Kentucky Derby Preakness Belmont Stakes 1973 Video" Secretariat (March 30, 1970 -- October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years, setting new race records in two of the three events in the Series—(May 5, 1973 Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5) - the first horse ever to run under 2 minutes, and June 9, 1973 Belmont Stakes a World record—these two records still stand today... 39 years later.
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- I just dug this newspaper article out of my running scrapbook. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - AMERICAN STEVE SCOTT, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A STRAIGHT, DOWNHILL COURSE, RAN THE FASTEST MILE IN TRACK HISTORY SATURDAY, WINNING THE INAUGURAL QUEEN STREET MILE IN 3 MINUTES 31.25 SECONDS.
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Are you brave enough to take on Goliath? Six Flags open world's tallest, steepest and fastest wooden roller coaster Record breaker: Goliath is the fastest and steepest wooden roller coaster ever built. 'We keep building them bigger, faster, better, and more exciting,' Grubb told the Chicago Times. The ride is the latest attempt by Six Flags to push back the boundaries of theme rides.
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Secretariat (horse) At age three, Secretariat not only won the Triple Crown, he set speed records in all three races. His time in the Kentucky Derby still stands as the Churchill Downs track record for 11⁄4 miles, and his time in the Belmont Stakes stands as the American record for 11⁄2 miles on the dirt.
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- Secretariat’s jockey says the movie is `alright’. There is only one man on earth who knows what it felt like to sit on Secretariat’s back on June 9, 1973. Ron Turcotte was that man who led Big Red around the Belmont Park dirt on the way to horse racing’s first Triple Crown since 1948. The 31-length win stamped Secretariat as the greatest horse of our time — maybe all time. At the time, I’m sure, people from the ’70s thought that one day there would be a movie made about Big Red. Secretariat and jockey Ron Turcotte on the way home to win the historic 1973 Belmont Stakes. (Associated Press)
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- Alone, Secretariat wasn't racing against other horses, but against the clock, against history. When he finished the last quarter in a mind-blowing 25 seconds, there wasn't another horse in the same zip code. The magnificent chestnut finished an amazing 31 lengths in front.
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- 17 June 1929. The longest race ever staged was the 1929 trans-continental race from New York City to Los Angeles, California, USA of 5,850 km (3,635 miles). The Finnish-born Johnny Salo (1893-1931) was the winner in 1929 in 79 days, from 31 March to 17 June.