Video: 'Secretariat - Belmont Stakes 1973'

(Saturday, June 9, 1973, post time approximately 5:38 p.m. EDT) — Secretariat won the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes today by the improbable margin of 31 lengths over Twice a Prince, his runner-up, at a track record time 2:24 flat before a crowd of 69,138, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

Video: 'Secretariat Belmont Stakes 1973 & extended coverage (HD Version - NEW!)'

The race is widely considered the greatest performance of the twentieth century by a North American racehorse.

Video: 'The Sensational 70s: 1973 (The Events of 1973)' (Secretariat at 6:42)