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, ...

Hall of Fame trainer Lucien Laurin, who saddled Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, died Monday at 88. Laurin died at Baptist Hospital. He broke his hip in a fall last week and died after comp… ...

Meadow Stable, Lucien Laurin, and jockey Ron Turcotte thus launched onto heady days of championships: Riva Ridge, champion juvenile male in 1971, and Secretariat, champion of his age divisions and ...

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 ...

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.

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.