LOUISVILLE, Ky .(WDRB) — The photograph has hung in every home office I’ve ever had.
It shows Secretariat in full flight — charging down the stretch at Churchill Downs in the 1973 Kentucky Derby. I believe it is the photo that ran inside Sports Illustrated, a double-truck, we used to call it in the quaint days of actual printed publications.
The picture, I believe, was taken by famed photographer Neil Leifer. The story, as related to me by my father, was that Cawood Ledford asked for a print of it. And Ledford made a print and gave it to my dad, who somewhere along the line got it signed by Penny Chenery…