Here is a photo of Secretariat's mom, Somethingroyal, a mare who only raced once, on August 2nd, 1954 at Saratoga where she went unplaced. But the filly ended up being a fantastic broodmare and mom, and was voted the 1973 Broodmare of the Year, the year her baby won the Triple Crown!! Another of her great babies was Sir Gaylord to name one of many! She died in 1983 at age 31 and was the oldest mare to produce a Triple Crown Winner when she was 18.Now here's a sad aside that just goes to show how dependent horses are on the angels of our better natures. In the mid-1990s, one of Somethingroyal's other children, Straight Flush, ended up in a Texas feed lot, in danger of heading to the slaughterhouse. Can you imagine? A half-brother of Secretariat running on hard times!? He was adopted at the old age of 24 and sent to California where he lived to 32-years as a pensioner in the lap of luxury! He passed away just recently on September 3, 2007, falling asleep peacefully under a eucalyptus tree. You can read more about this story at a link below.
http://www.diamondjfarms.com/somethin.html
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http://www.secretariat.com/brother.html