"Wayne Lukas reinvented the game," Lanny Kohnhorst, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Director of Horsemen's Relations. "Wayne produced champions, from Grade 1 winners to stallion prospects to ...

D. Wayne Lukas, who was raised on a 10-acre farm outside Antigo, Wisconsin, had recently been hospitalized with a severe blood infection.

Secretariat, the storied horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973, was found after his death to have a heart weighing more than 9kg. Horse hearts are built for exertion.

Secretariat sired more than 660 registered foals during the horse's life. The racehorse famously had an unusually large heart, according to The Associated Press.

All 21 horses racing in this year's Kentucky Derby are reportedly descendants of the famed racehorse Secretariat, according to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. This year marks 52 years ...

Secretariat won the Derby, Preakness and Belmont in record times that still stand, ending a 25-year drought. Every horse racing in the Kentucky Derby 2025 Saturday descended from Secretariat.

Secretariat was called “Super Horse” on the cover of TIME and was Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year” in 1978. When visiting my family in North Carolina we always put on some of our ...

Kelce later doubled down on his assertion with a post on X (formerly Twitter), pointing to Secretariat's famously large heart, which he claimed to be a symptom of steroid use among athletes. At the ...

At the time of his death, Secretariat's heart reportedly weighed roughly 22 pounds, about 2.5 times as heavy as that of an average horse.