Keyword: lucien laurin. In First Turf Try, Secretariat Shatters Course Record. Fifty year ago: Nine days after a detour to the Woodward Stakes (G1) didn't work out, ...

Lucien Laurin insisted that Penny be there for his debut, because he felt he was unveiling a special colt. He was mortified when Secretariat stumbled and flopped. But Penny, like her trainer, knew ...

“[Trainer Lucien Laurin] ran him when he wasn’t at his best, when he had a high fever at Saratoga and he wasn’t ready to run in the Whitney Stakes,” said Turcotte, who rode the horse in ...

Chenery and trainer Lucien Laurin decided to enter Secretariat in the Whitney Stakes, even though he'd been sick all week and was competing against older, more mature horses for the first time.

Witness Eddie Sweat, trusted Black groom and legendary horse whisperer or trainer Lucien Laurin’s redemption from near retirement. Honor brave Turcotte, paralyzed five years later at Belmont ...

Trainer Lucien Laurin blamed Secretariat’s showing in the Wood on an abscess in the colt’s mouth, which burst the Sunday before the Kentucky Derby.

He insisted that track president Jack Loome and AP owner Madison Square Garden Corp. sent him to Belmont to convince owner Penny Tweedy and trainer Lucien Laurin to come to Chicago for a $100,000 ...

Though he had worked Kentucky Derby winner Riva Ridge the previous year for Chenery and trainer Lucien Laurin, Secretariat’s exercise was originally entrusted to Jimmy Gaffney.