“People scurried around Secretariat as Turcotte rode along on him. The colt remained a center of calm among them, walking quietly, unmoved by the moilings around him, by the voices, by the garland of daisies, painted to look like black-eyed Susans, they draped across his withers.”

-William Nack
Big Red of Meadow Stable:
Secretariat, the Making of a Champion

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