{"id":610,"date":"2025-05-05T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:01:45","slug":"all-horses-in-kentucky-derby-were-related-to-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/all-horses-in-kentucky-derby-were-related-to-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL HORSES IN KENTUCKY DERBY WERE RELATED TO SECRETARIAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h1>Report: All Horses in 151st Kentucky Derby Were Descended from Legendary Secretariat<\/h1>\n<aside id=\"social-share-article-top\" class=\"bnn-social-share\" data-fbc=\"12\"><a class=\"button_facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2025\/05\/04\/report-all-horses-in-151st-kentucky-derby-were-descended-from-legendary-secretariat\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"acz5\">154<\/span><\/a><\/aside>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2212657276-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Mindframe with Irad ortiz riding wins the Churchill Downs Sprint during the 151st running\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption><cite><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/mindframe-with-irad-ortiz-riding-wins-the-churchill-downs-news-photo\/2212657276?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener external\">Horsephotos\/Getty Images<\/a><\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"PollyC\" data-mp3u=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2025\/05\/report-all-horses-in-151st-kentucky-derby-were-descended-from-legendary-secretariat-29947349.mp3\" data-mp3l=\"2:20\" data-mp3d=\"PT2M20S\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"subheading\">Every horse that ran the 151st Kentucky Derby on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, is reportedly descended from one American champion.<\/p>\n<p>Pedigrees apparently show those horses are descended from Secretariat, the horse that in 1973 ran the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the derby\u2019s history, the <em>Louisville Courier Journal<\/em> <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/sports\/horses\/kentucky-derby\/2025\/05\/03\/secretariat-shows-in-kentucky-derby-2025-through-lineage\/83416002007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back six generations of most horses will reportedly show they are descended from a champion such as Secretariat or Northern Dancer,\u00a0the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to derby contending trainer Whit Beckman,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s one of those stats. It\u2019s bound to happen at some point with how much he shows up in every single pedigree. It\u2019s really cool. Very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Secretariat was a thoroughbred racehorse that became the first in 25 years to <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/secretariat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">win<\/a> the Triple Crown in 1973, per History.com. According to the site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In 1974, Secretariat was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 1999, he was the only non-human included among ESPN\u2019s 50 greatest athletes of the century and he became the first thoroughbred to be honored with his own U.S.\u00a0Postal stamp. Outside the paddock at Belmont Park now stands a statue of Secretariat with both his front feet in the air.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretariat and his enduring legend of 50 years later | NBC Sports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0JhdMPkA0YM?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rx=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The History.com article said after his Triple Crown victory, Secretariat later sired nearly 600 horses that included more than 40 stakes winners. However, he was the only one of his kind.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretariat's record-breaking 1973 Kentucky Derby run (FULL RACE) | NBC Sports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LV4drumXbA4?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rx=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sovereignty won the derby on Saturday, and the crowd went wild watching the horses pound through the mud on the track.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kentucky Derby 2025 (FULL RACE) | NBC Sports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NqrDJmmh1AA?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rx=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UPI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/sovereignty-wins-sloppy-kentucky-derby-over-journalism\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cSovereignty rallied by Journalism in deep stretch Saturday to win the 151st Kentucky Derby by 1 1\/2 lengths, giving Dubai-based Godolphin its first victory in the Run for the Roses and a weekend international trifecta of top-level Classic victories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: All Horses in 151st Kentucky Derby Were Descended from Legendary Secretariat 154 Horsephotos\/Getty Images Every horse that ran the 151st Kentucky Derby on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, is reportedly descended from one American champion. Pedigrees apparently show those horses are descended from Secretariat, the horse that in 1973 ran the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}