spectacular bid vs secretariat

October 8, 2012 11:28pm . As he got closer and came into focus through the mist of a rainy Kentucky morning, it was easy to remember him at the races: The white-stockinged feet were churning into the soft turf, the red mane was wind-stiffened like the quills on an arrow, the muscles on his enormous chest were pulsing with each stride. Do it in the Cup against the best. I saw that with Mineshaft which was well known on the ESPN board and I would say very well argued by me. Bernadini couldn't have gotten Spectacular Bid into a sweat, he would have disposed of him like a dirty diaper.Location: UNC-CH will always miss Eve Carson. The Secretariat group act as if it isn't even a question, that to bring him up against any horse would be a crime. Secretariat was so brilliant a race horse that his stud record has not dimmed public affection for him. Beautiful Horse Pictures Beautiful Horses The Great Race American Pharoah Triple Crown Winners Sport Of Kings Thoroughbred Horse Racehorse Horse Photos. He weighs 1,420 pounds now, 200 more than when he raced. Here’s how good that 1:57 4/5 is: Secretariat […]

At 2----Edge Spectacular Bid Secretariat didn't race in a single, not one, graded race as a two year old. Secretariat never came within 15 lengths of this effort....Now the Bid must thank the very talented Relaunch for blazing the very fast early trail....But the race is the greatest of any in History.It's not rocket surgury to figure out who "the pro" is.--Suq it!It's not rocket surgury to figure out who "the pro" is.--Suq it!Injury.....he would have been favored for the Kentucky Derby otherwise. He was special though. One other thing, his 1:57 was 20 lengths better than the "wonderhorse" everyone is so hyped up about. He jogged a few steps, then Secretariat took up the chase, and the two champions went head and head from inside their sides of the fence.It was a photo-finish when they called it off about 20 yards later, slowing down and turning it away. Spectacular Bid, whose gray coat has turned almost white, stuck his head over the fence in Secretariat's direction and snorted as if to say, Wanna race? But what people have wrong here is the idea that I try to convince people about these things. That would be Swaps vs the Bid...but anyway, see what this fellow has to offerThe Race they are discussing on the forum Is Spectacular Bids world recorrd for a mile and a quarter. ''He's the one they all want to know about,'' says Seth Hancock, Claiborne's president and principal owner.

Secretariat worked a mile in 1:37 in preparation for the Oct. 14 Champagne Stakes. Spectacular Bid and Secretariat. I simply don't....But at the same time I've never given my reasons for the Spectacular Bid call so I might as well now.I've researched it myself, and always felt the same way about the Bid. The Secretariat group act as if it isn't even a question, that to bring him up against any horse would be a crime. He is a sensation so far while Affirmed has been a dud.years may also get a boost from his offspring. Syndicated for a then-record $22 million, Spectacular Bid’s career at stud failed to match his brilliance on the racetrack.

Still, because of the high hopes that were held out for him, he is usually held up as the prime example that great runners do not necessarily make great sires.These things sometimes have a way of evening themselves out. “Of the horses I'm familiar with,” Delp said in a 2001 interview with the Los Angeles Times, “only Citation and Secretariat would have run with the Bid.”.

''He's a champion when he walks into that shed,'' says Jon Sosby, the Claiborne stallion manager. Bid- 7 wins in 9 starts. He knows how to evalute correctly. Look at him now, prancing and dancing like a little angel.

''lives a charmed life.

He was 10 for 10 that year and set 5 … Spectacular Bid, who raced for Delp from 1978 through 1980, won 26 of 30 starts. Was doing some research on this years Derby and ran accross this interesting Blog.....This fellow must have read, Big Frostys top 20.

On February 3, 1980, Spectacular Bid stunned the horse racing world by winning the Strub Stakes at Santa Anita in 1:57 4/5, obliterating the world record set 30 years earlier by the great Noor and equaled by Quack in 1972. I realize 99% of people would disagree with me about Mineshaft but did I make the case clearly and back it up, without a doubt. As spectacular a 3-year-old as Secretariat was in 1973, Spectacular Bid was just as dominant a 4-year-old in 1980. ''He's an absolute professional, has been since the first time I took him in there. Yet, of the 8,000 visitors who pass through Claiborne's stone gates each year, farm officials guess that 95 percent of them ask to see Secretariat. In my mind it really is not the dream match I would like to see. so I guess I'd have to say spectacular bid… The classic distance for horse racing......the author is correct...still today, no horse before the Bid or since has come close to that mighty performance. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.SPORTS OF THE TIMES; SECRETARIAT, AT 14, IS STILL A STAR

... Gotham Stakes, Ron Turcotte in action aboard Secretariat at Aqueduct Raceway, Jamaica, NY Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images. The quality of mares he attracted fell, and his stud fees declined over the years. Spectacular Bid's first crop of foals will begin racing as 2-year-olds in the coming weeks and early scouting reports suggest they may be something special.Secretariat's paddock at Claiborne Farm borders those of three other stallions: Drone, Sir Ivor and Spectacular Bid.