BALTIMORE: Calling Secretariat a Triple Crown winner actually might understate his dominance. The colt not only won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1973 — he finished each in record time.
It just took 39 years for that part of his incredible sweep to become official.When Secretariat won the Preakness a half-century ago, he was a star but not yet a legend. His 31-length romp in the Belmont was still to come, and although his back-to-front surge on the first turn at Pimlico was spectacular, the colt's final time of 1 minute, 55 seconds wasn't all that noteworthy. It was a second slower than the Preakness mark set two years earlier by Canonero II.
The debate persists today, even as instant replay becomes increasingly normalized. It's one thing to use technology to correct mistakes while competition is ongoing, but doing it well after the fact is a bit different.In 2010, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost a perfect game because of a missed call by an umpire. Nowadays, instant replay could fix that — but it would be reviewed immediately. Not days or years after the fact.
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