How Secretariat taught me to run.

It was a shock to the nation that the massive copper-colored horse, an equine specimen so physically perfect that he had been called "the horse that God built", could be felled by the same common ailment that kills many a backyard horse every year. FEATURES When Secretariat first arrived at Hialeah Park in Florida for race training in 1972, the 2-year-old Thoroughbred was generally viewed as promising but a bit pudgy. My horse's farrier tells me that the advances in laminitis treatment have come so far in the past 50 years that, had Secretariat lived and run today, veterinarians might have saved him. Extracted from the article