Secretariat's Triple Crown - Part 2 - Belmont Stakes

The day Secretariat won the Belmont was the first time I saw my parents cry. That day was when I learned about happy tears.

The greatest sports moment ever....Secretariat had no millions in salary, no agent, no commercial endorsements, no social media.........he just ran for the pure joy of it.

Secretariat did a lot more than winning races in record time. People were looking for something so great to lift up their spirit and feel great about something so special, and god sent Secretariat.

50 yrs and still holds all 3 race records!! I really don' t believe there are words in the human language to truly describe this event. So many people try. ( Amazing, Unreal , Mind blowing, Supernatural ) I'm just so grateful I was alive to see it !! I get choked up everytime I watch this race. The pure majesty of this horse and this moment is just overwhelming. I must visit his grave before I leave this world!! My all-time favorite sports moment. Thank you Secretariat :)

Greatest race horse ever...Still holds all 3 track records-48 years later. Incredible.

When Bill Nack said to Jack Nicholas , all your life you have been looking for perfection, today at the Belmont you saw it." That said it all.

Belmont wasn’t just a race and Secretariat was just a horse it was the greatest sporting performance by the greatest athlete we will ever see!!! That’s what legends are made of!!!

No matter how many times I watch this, it still gives me chills.

One of the greatest calls in sports history - "He is moving like a tremendous machine"

Poor Sham. One of the best horses of all time, and never won anything because he was unlucky enough to come along at the same time as the greatest horse ever.

This is by far the greatest moment in sports history.

I saw the 1973 Belmont Stakes live at my home. The race was and STILL IS the most remarkable sporting event that I have ever seen. Secretariat, you are the GREATEST.

I remember watching it on my little black & white TV and I still got chills - for the the first time in my life I could feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I will never forget it, he was so magnificent.

Words fail to adequately describe his greatness. The importance of Secretariat in 1973 cannot be over estimated. The nation needed something special to focus on and this horse delivered, boy did he deliver.

To think, 50 years later, that we would be talking about a horse in a race. But he was more than a horse, and it was more than a race. It was a miracle, an honest to goodness miracle, that brought people together. One of those rare times when someone or something performs to its absolute best, to show all of us how great the world is, the possibilities, the heights that we all can achieve. I cry every time I watch this race. It is a testament to greatness how much absolute will this horse has, to show the world what can be possible. I'm glad that I was alive to witness this miracle.

I watched this horse in 1972 & 1973. He amazed me then & I suppose he always will. Each time I see this race my reaction is the same. Awe & tears.

My parents went to the race. I stayed home and watched on TV. It is hard to think of any event that hyped, with that anticipation, since. Maybe the first step by Armstrong on the moon a few years earlier. When the horse began separating from sham, riveted you as it began. The call "tremendous machine" live, took your breath away. From that moment on I can say this honestly, it was the only thing I have seen that felt supernatural. The witnesses to people crying aren't lying. My dad came home and told me a few hours after the race. It overwhelmed you live even if you saw it on TV. It was a very special moment to just be a witness. When I watch the race today, it is the only thing I can recall from that far in the past, as if it just happened, with the same raw emotion of the moment then.

I have watched this race at least 20 times. I was bound and determined to watch this race without shedding a tear but I still can not do it. There will never be a horse like Secretariat again.

I was just a kid when Secretariat won the Belmont race, and subsequently the Triple Crown. I was home watching it on the TV with my Mom. She started crying, when he blew by Sham, and started his epic turn and run down the home stretch. I knew, I was seeing something very rare and very special. Perfection.

Absolutely. I cried through watching this. I was a miserable little girl in a horrifically abusive household, dealing on top of that with overweight, glasses and acne. Secretariat was an angel who lifted me up into another dimension. I collected all the magazines and clippings, and knew one day I could do something great. He was sent to earth by God to lift us up.