Sometime after 4:30 p.m. on the afternoon of May 5, 1973, groom Eddie Sweat unlatched the front of Stall 21 in Barn 42 at Churchill Downs. Out came Secretariat. The strapping chestnut colt likely ...

Edward “Shorty” Sweat was born in Holly Hill, S. C. in 1939. As one of nine children of a sharecropper, he grew up in a ...

Eddie Sweat was Secretariat’s constant companion.” “Rarely more than a few feet from the chestnut phenom, the experienced groom did achieve a degree of fame during the mid-1970s, not only ...

Will America ever be so far out front again? Pick another story from Secretariat’s stable. Witness Eddie Sweat, trusted Black groom and legendary horse whisperer or trainer Lucien Laurin’s ...

Turcotte is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery, his owner, died in 2017 at age 95; trainer Lucien Laurin died in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise rider ...

Edward “Shorty” “Eddie” Sweat of Vance and George Thomas “Charlie” Davis Jr. of Eutawville. Sweat was Secretariat’s groom and Davis was the horse’s exercise rider. Each of the ...

Fifty years later, Turcotte, 81, is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery died in 2017 at age 95; Lucien Laurin passed in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise ...

Groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998 and exercise rider Charlie Davis followed in 2018. “Charlie and Eddie were very good horsemen,” he said. “Sweat was beautiful with horses.” Secretariat died ...

Turcotte is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery, his owner, died in 2017 at age 95; trainer Lucien Laurin died in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise rider ...