Secretariat still matters: Combining astonishing talent with good looks and charisma, Secretariat captivated the nation in 1973. Forty years later, his star still shines bright

摘要

The other icons of 1973 —the Partridge Family, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, eight-track tapes, bell-bottom pants—seem as distant and hoary as 40-cent-a-gallon gas. But Secretariat thunders on, timeless, as vibrant and relevant in death as he was in life.