Movie "Secretariat" is on the Family Channel this morning

First impressions - that was NOT Aqueduct's paddock, Secretariat's first race was in the 2nd race, not the 4th race, and I don't think he was #4 (I could be wrong about that) Why is Lucien Lauren so tall, and thin? And as of "a couple of weeks" before his first race he hadn't been named yet?

They just showed a race from "Saratoga Park"!

I'm beginning to see what people said when it first came out.

I went back to his pps to check his first few races, and noticed something I'd never realized before - Secretariat was the favorite in every one of his 21 races.

I wound up watching about 2/3 of it before I had to go out. It was a total work of fiction and unrealistic - from the actors chosen for most of the parts to the portrayal of some of his races. They even had the saddle number wrong in one of them! Frank Martin was a surly guy, but not the villain they showed him as in the movie. They did the movie on the cheap, and it shows.

But, I have to admit that the guy who played Eddie Sweat was great - and he sounded just like Sweat (and had the same pants, too!!)

How long after the Belmont did the movie go on, did they do the rest of his races too?

Seabiscuit was a much more realistic movie, and for the most part factually correct (although there were a few exaggerations in it, too). But I liked the first Seabiscuit movie better, but that may be because I'm just an old fart.

Hey, what's your beef with him? He had one graded stakes win (Gr. 3) in more than 10,000 rides. I'd say that's pretty good. But this morning was the first time I ever heard a French Canadian with a touch of a southern accent!

LOL I sure hope we don't get a blizzard in May! It really was bad!