SHAM The Tragic Champion r By Geoff Young
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here is sentiment in horse racing but not much sympathy. The line is clearly drawn between winners and losers. To the winners go the glory, the blanket of flowers, the adulation and the fandom. To the losers, well, they just disappear. On this 40th anniversary of Secretariat’s Triple Crown accomplishment, there will be little said about the horse that pushed “Big Red” to three track records and immortality. His place in history is obscured by the shadow of arguably the greatest racehorse ever.
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