Secretariat’s Gallop into Greatness, Movie Fame has W&L Tie – Roanoke.com

I saw this on my alma mater, W&L’s,website earlier today…

And I’ll never forget going to the Kentucky Derby with my Washington and Lee friends in 1978 when Secretariat was still a vivid, recent memory….

He was one of the greatest sports stars to ever come out of the commonwealth.

He is the subject of a new movie starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich.

He is a horse.

The 1973 winner of the Triple Crown will jump from the pages of history to the multiplex when the Walt Disney Pictures film “Secretariat” opens across the country Friday, giving folks the chance to learn — or be reminded — of the Virginia roots of both the famed horse and the family who owned him.

Secretariat was born at The Meadow, a Caroline County horse farm founded by Washington and Lee University graduate Christopher Chenery. Secretariat, who lived and trained for two years at The Meadow, won the Triple Crown in blue-and-white racing silks — the school colors of Chenery’s alma mater.

via Secretariat’s gallop into greatness, movie fame has W&L tie – Roanoke.com.