Vintage Chicago Tribune: The nation’s most decorated and exciting athlete arrived in Chicago 50 years ago this month. He wasn’t, however, a baseball, basketball or football player. He was a horse.
The June 30, 1973, Chicago Tribune showed an ad for the race at Arlington Park featuring Secretariat.
Just three weeks after winning the Triple Crown, Secretariat was confirmed to race in the $125,000 Arlington Invitational.June 29, 1973: Fans watch Big Red’s arrival Triple Crown winner Secretariat gallops during a workout with exercise jockey George Davis in the saddle at Arlington Park race track in Arlington Heights on Friday morning, June 29, 1973.
Some wondered how he would get off the Overseas National Airways jet, which landed at O’Hare International Airport after a bumpy flight from Newark. Secretariat “paused, blinked twice at the cameras and meekly walked down and into the van, a groom guiding him by the tail,” the Tribune reported.Secretariat, left, rears up at the start of the Arlington Invitational on June 30, 1973. The slow start by the Triple Crown winner didn’t matter, although Secretariat didn’t break a track record in winning.
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