Twin Pines Ranch

12/30/2023

12/30/2023

Love this method

12/30/2023

Horses get fungal problems too .. going to try more of these!

12/21/2023

Now that's how to save your fall 👏

12/10/2023

Would love to do this!❤️

11/20/2023

Amazing woman ... Age is just a number❤️

11/11/2023

So awesome ❤️

11/09/2023

Amazing info about our heart.... The heart does have a "mind" of it's own, apparently! Horses respond to our hearts.

11/04/2023

Preakness stakes 1973🇺🇸 Ron Turcotte and Secretariat are catching the rest of the field at the Preakness knowing they are slowing the pace Secretariat goes to the outside and the rest is history. Secretariat with Ron Turcotte on board go on to win the Preakness in record time!!!! In route to the greatest triple crown campaign in the history of the sport.

11/04/2023

Wonderful ❤️

The incredible sculpture of Secretariat by Jocelynn Russell was placed on the monument today ahead of the official unveiling next week. I happened to be meeting Ed Bowen for lunch today at Lil's in Paris, KY. We heard that the sculpture was being installed. So, we walked a block down the street to take a look.
Ed is an Eclipse Award winning writer and started writing for the BloodHorse in 1964. The first horse he covered was Northern Dancer's Kentucky Derby win. By the time Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973, Ed was the editor of the BloodHorse with the extra assignment of being Penny Chenery's confidant. Ed Bowen is truly a living legend in the horse racing journalism. My book case is filled with most of the 23 books that he has authored. It was my honor to partner with Ed in producing his 20th book, "A Brush With Greatness". Of course, it was Ed that brought Penny Chenery on board as one of the first people to endorse the book. This is one of my artistic heroes, but I'm even luckier to call him a great friend.
I sent Ed this photo shortly after I took it and received a quick reply, "Two tremendous machines" . . . as always, well said, Mr. Bowen! Well said . . .

10/31/2023

This is a cool knot!

10/27/2023

Love this!

10/27/2023

SECRETARIAT
A LONG LASTING MOMENT FOREVER FROZEN IN TIME~2:24—

Secretariat raced into immortality in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. His victory, by one of the widest margins in the history of the American turf-31 lengths ahead of his nearest challenger and in a worldrecord time of 2:24 for the 1 1/2-mile distance - remains one of the most memorable in sports history.

Secretariat ran more powerfully than one could ever imagine. To feel the glory of Secretariat's Belmont is to be flooded with emotion after seeing something of true wonder.

On June 9, 1973, Secretariat broke from the inside post in the third leg of the Triple Crown and went to the front from the start. He was challenged by old rival Sham into the first turn, around the long first turn, and into the backstretch. The two were flying on the front end, ripping off blazing fractions. The pace was too much for Sham, but only seemed to energize Secretariat.

As Secretariat rounded the sweeping Belmont far turn he seemed to be on cruise control, with jockey Ron Turcotte just steering. Secretariat's lead widened from seven lengths to 20 lengths on that turn.

On to the wire, Turcotte did not ease the horse, but let him run on. On any other day, the rider would have been pulling the horse up through the lane, saving something for another day. But this was the day. Secretariat was no longer racing against the others. He was racing against only himself and history. The margin kept widening, and widening, and widening.

And then it was over.

The moment froze. What we are left with are fleeting glimpses — a blazing pace, a huge running machine, a visual roar of acceleration, an ever-widening margin, the coat darkening, a white v***r of feet, a jockey sitting chilly, a horse alone — and one long-lasting moment frozen in memory. What we witnessed. The champion's charisma. A feeling. An emotion. A ripple of goose bumps.

A moment of greatness.

10/24/2023

Well, I've never seen this before either!

10/24/2023

10/23/2023

Breathtaking to watch❤️

SECRETARIAT 🐎
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At the top of the stretch at Churchill Downs at 5:38 p.m., the hour had come round at last: Secretariat was battling his arch rival, Sham, and they were nose and nose through the first 100 yards into the lane when Secretariat began to pull away, slowly but inexorably, and Sham began melting down the wick of that fiery pace as 130,000 people sent up a roar and Secretariat bounded home alone in 1:59 2/5—the fastest Kentucky Derby ever run—the first horse ever to shade two minutes for the mile and a quarter. In the doing, he pulled off the unprecedented feat of running each successive quarter-mile split faster than the preceding one—0:25 1/5, 0:24, 0:23 4/5, 0:23 2/5, and 0:23 flat—literally running faster and faster as the race went on.

He electrified the crowd that afternoon, and I can hear their echoes in that hallowed grandstand yet today. Secretariat had been voted the nation’s Horse of the Year as a two-year-old in 1972, and he had already shown himself to be a horse of gusting speed and highest quality, but the Kentucky Derby was his first transcendent moment as an equine athlete, the performance by which he joined the racing gods—the likes of Man o’ War and Count Fleet, Citation and Native Dancer, Swaps and Dr. Fager—and announced that he belonged in their pantheon. The Preakness reaffirmed his Derby brilliance, while his pièce de résistance, the Belmont Stakes, left him spinning in an orbit all his own, alone.


~William Nack

10/21/2023

Just had to share... A fun idea!

10/17/2023

Secretariat’s owner, Penny Chenery, would be the first to admit that breeding horses is a genetic crapshoot. She said that Secretariat, “next to having my children, was the most remarkable event in my life. But he was not my creation or accomplishment. We just got lucky.” Secretariat’s full sister, in filly called The Bride, was a fine broodmare but did nothing on the track.
When a great one like Secretariat comes along, we feel as if a blessing has been bestowed upon us. And it has. A great comet has streaked across a black sky and we happen to have been walking along a dark country road and seen the celestial rarity in all its brilliance. We will tell our grandchildren what a marvel it was, one that made us feel small and exalted at the same time. While that comet burned and cast its shimmering light, the world seemed a more beautiful place, and it felt good to be alive.
~Penny Chenery

10/11/2023

What a memory.... Amazing horse ❤️

Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory and wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Louisville, Kentucky. May 5, 1973.❤️🇺🇸

10/10/2023

Imagine❤️

10/10/2023

Fabulous