#secretariat
Remember I said I visited Louisville which is where Secretariat raced in real life and the bridge he commits suicide on in BoJack Horseman
Well I made a vlog of my whole trip. check it out!
I was in Louisville this past week! I did a tour at Churchill Downs, where Secretariat raced!
Some things I learned: A derby is 1.15 miles and Secretariat is the only horse to have completed a derby in under 2 minutes (it was like 1:59 or something). Not only that, he had negative splits, which means he was actually faster second half of the race than first which is pretty crazy. There’s two other races that are all within a couple of weeks of the Kentucky Derby, and if you win all three then you get the Triple Crown(referenced in BoJack).
When Secretariat died they did an autopsy to understand how Secreatriat was so fast and found out his heart weighed 22 pounds, nearly 3 times the size the average.
Also I drove into Louisville from Indiana so I crossed the bridge that Secretariat jumps off of in the show.
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Did a bunch of other touristy stuff in Louisville too like bourbon tasting at the Old Forester Distillery, visiting the baseball bat factory/museum, and eating a lot of fried chicken.
This was my first time in the Midwest/South! Any of you visited/from Louisville?
