An abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds. Sept. 16, 1972: Secretariat holds the STILL STANDING fastest recorded times in the world on dirt all the way from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 miles in HISTORY and is just 0.2 seconds off the current 1 1/8 mile world record. Secretariat’s grandsires fared a bit better, with grandsons A.P. His fame continued long after his career ended. When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. 馬名のセクレタリアトは牧場の事務を勤めていたエリザベス・ハムがこの馬の馬名を申請する際に様々な馬名を申請したが、いずれも却下されてしまい、最終的に自分がかつて秘書職を務めていたことにちなんでこの名前を出して通過したという。 Put out to stud in late 1973, he sired nearly 600 foals, including one horse that sold for more than $1 million at auction—but nearly all of his male offspring failed miserably at the racetrack. He was inducted into the Horseracing Hall of Fame just a year after winning the Triple Crown. Directed by Randall Wallace. The 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973.Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators.His winning time of 2 minutes and 24 seconds still stands as the American record for a mile and a half on dirt. Secretariat won his first stakes race, the Sanford Stakes, at Saratoga Racecourse. Accelerating with each quarter-mile segment, he crossed the finish line at 1:59 2/5th, a new (and still standing) course record. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. このレースまでにアメリカ二冠 （ケンタッキーダービーとプリークネスステークス） を圧倒的な強さで制していたセクレタリアトは、最後の一冠であるベルモントステークスへ望みます。 5. There isn't any off-color language or scenes, and it is well acted and well made. If you want to learn about the greatest racehorse of the 20th century, go to you tube and watch old clips of the actual horse itself. If you're looking for a good movie about a horse, buy or rent Seabiscuit. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Secretariat Profile. With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis. Secretariat was honored as the 35th greatest athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN's SportsCentury, a series of programs profiling the top athletes of the past 100 years. 1 Secretariat Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.. My main complaint is that it really seemed to be the Penny Tweedy story, and not that much about Secretariat.
It wasn’t until June 2012 that the Maryland Racing Commission, using a forensic review of the race, determined that not only had Secretariat set a course record in 1973, he had been even faster than previously believed—1:53 flat.Secretariat-mania reached a fever pitch as he prepared for the final leg of the Triple Crown: The week before the Belmont, Sports Illustrated, Time and Newsweek magazines featured him on their covers in the same week—an unheard of accomplishment that has never been repeated. Secretariat was well put together even as a two-year-old, and by the time he was three, he had further matured in body and smoothed out his gait. A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. As well as proving Secretariat’s time to be 1:53, the video analysis showed that second place finisher Sham covered the Preakness distance in the time of 1:53 3/5, which also would have broken Canonero II’s existing track record セクレタリアト（ Secretariat 、1970年 - 1989年）は、アメリカ合衆国の競走馬・種牡馬。 1973年のアメリカ三冠を始めとした数多くの大記録を打ちたてたアメリカ合衆国を代表する競走馬である。馬でありながら20世紀のトップアスリートの上位 20世紀末に各国で盛んに行われたベストアスリート○○選等では、競走馬・競技馬が幾頭かランクインする国も出たが（その他近親には姪にアラダ、甥にアトイーズ、マニラザルーラー、従兄弟にヒアアンドゼア、ディスパース、クイーンズダブル、姉のひ孫に『ホース・トレーダーズ～アメリカ競馬を変えた男たち～』（スティーヴン・クリスト著 草野純訳 サラブレッド血統センター刊 1988年出版）p76-112 The movie is great for families, as there were a number of children in the theater who really enjoyed the film. Was this review helpful to you? In 1999, the U.S. Aug. 26, 1972: Secretariat won the Hopeful Stakes by five lengths at Saratoga Racecourse, for his second stakes win in as many tries. Postal Service issued a commemorative Secretariat stamp, making him the first equine to earn the honor; and ESPN named him to their list of the 100 greatest athletes of the 20th century.Racing against only four other horses in New York, Secretariat was considered such a favorite that no third-place “show” bets were accepted on him. If you want to take your children to a well made movie with horses, this is a good film.