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It isn't difficult to drive through Laurel, Maryland, rather than know that it was after the site of races where thundering thoroughbreds ran at top speeds searching for victory. In fact, thousands of men and women do each day, on the way from Baltimore to Washington, DC, or vice versa. But there is a time, not that way back when, when champions ran at the now largely disused Laurel Race Course, when four-footed runners raced for a reward that would go never to themselves but with their two-footed owners. They ran for the shear love of operating and, maybe, with a certain internal satisfaction at being successful. One of the horses that once ran in Laurel, and other similar paths across the country, was the famous Secretariat. Unlike other past heroes like Seabiscuit, Secretariat's fame is situated not on the way where he overcame long chances against him but in the way that he and his coaches made the most of advantages he had from labor and birth. Won by his owner in a blessed sketch, he was cherished even before he was created and spent the first calendar year of his life gladly trotting about the green fields of an Virginia farm.
