“I'm just against that," said Penny Chenery, Secretariat’s owner, on a media teleconference call last week. “I think it would invalidate all of the records and all of the times and make it an entirely different event.”
“It would just be awful,” added Patrice Wolfson, who raced Affirmed. “It’s a wonderful, unique set of races, and if you changed it, it wouldn’t work.”
June 6th 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wa