Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

at this point, she probably can’t function normally while not pregnant.

That phrasing is just so fucking terrible. It instantly conjured up an image of a super cool bro dragging a little red wagon with a vagina in it, while a forlorn women trundles behind it trying to keep up.

The Secretariat movie gives the impression that the time for the first part of the race is extra-fast because another horse, Sham, challenged Secretariat at a record-breaking pace. Then Secretariat took it into his own head to turn up the afterburner and leave them all in the dust. His jockey wasn’t whipping him, he…

While the commenters on BDC are absolutely horrendous, the non-racist/classist comments are always about how shitty the writers there are which is a legitimate concern. They really scrape the bottom of the barrel.

But this assumes that American Pharoah went absolutely, balls-out the fastest he could go. Jockeys are aware of their competition, and they aren’t going to push the horse more than necessary just so they can nail everyone else to the wall. You really can’t tell which horse would have beaten the other without racing…

Secretariat was a machine. That was what? A lead of like 15 lengths on the last leg? That’s above and beyond.

It had been 25 years since the last winner when Secretariat won, so it wasn’t that much more common. I just know that for me personally, if I had been in the stands when American Pharoah won, I would have been jumping up and down and yelling, whereas if I saw something like Secretariat live and in person, my reaction…

The 1973 Belmont Stakes is like someone hitting 6 home runs in Game 7 of the World Series. It’s just something on a scale that’s unfathomable.

I call bullshit.

Because horses aren’t trying to get faster the way humans are. Horses aren’t like awake in the stable at night like “shit I need to push my body to the limit! Do something no horse has ever done before! You’re going down, Secretariat!” They’re just like “what the fuck why are we running?”

True. Watch the Secretariat video closely. I don’t want to anthropomorhize a horse, but just as he pulls ahead of Sham by a head on the back stretch, it looks like he turns his head slightly toward the infield, as if he is saying “watch this.” And then he just turns it on. Maybe it’s the camera angle or maybe it’s…

And Sham was a cousin of Secretariat’s. In the shorter races he was close to secretariat. He ripped out two of his teeth on the gate at the derby and still came within 2 1/2 lengths of Secretariat, their times were the fastest and second fastest derby times ever (depending on how you round the older times).

As a kid growing up in the 70’s/80’s in New England my father and his father were very much into boxing and horse racing. I remember going to small time horse races with my dad and have a memory that stands out of him talking about Secretariat and how dominant that beast was (in the video watch Secretariat from the…

The X factor, passed only through the dam’s genes.

I agree. Since yesterday I’ve watched that Secretariat video at least 15 times. I can’t get enough. And what a call. “He’s moving like a tremendous machine!” One of the greatest broadcast calls in sports history, I think. Right up there with “ The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant” and “It gets…

Secretariat ran the track in 2:24. American Pharoah didn’t. Why would the other horses matter?

You could argue that, if Sham wasn't an outstanding horse who put up tremendously fast times in the Derby and Preakness, and who would have been a triple crown contender in just about any other year.

Watching Secretariat at Belmont gives me goosebumps. Simply amazing.

NOT ABOUT HOCKEY BOOOOOOO