Yes, I will go see "Secretariat." Because I remember, and it was magic. [View All]

[Faygo Kid]

I know about the cruelties of horse racing. I know about the deaths of those who were famous, and those we never heard about because they were on some podunk track where they didn't merit a paragraph even in the small-town local paper.

But I can't help it. I was 21 then. And I remember one of the most magnificent sports stories of my lifetime, and yes, it mattered then, and it matters now. It may be an emotionally manipulative movie, maybe even a not very good one, but I will probably cry anyway, and I don't do that much anymore at my age. He "moved like a tremendous machine," and I remember exactly where I was for the Belmont, and my jaw still drops at that memory, and at the undeniable greatness that was Secretariat.

He was The People's Horse, and anyone who reviews him as anything else has no idea about the times and how he was received. He belonged to all of us. And maybe I want to see this movie because I can't be 21 again. Well, maybe I can for a couple hours. Anybody old enough to remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW3hYUtTuX0