According to the LA Times, Secretariat was humanely destroyed in Paris in October 1989.
Clarification: (Paris, KY)
Gus Koch, assistant manager at Claiborne, where Secretariat stood at stud, said the stallion suffered from an incurable condition known as laminitis, an inflammation of the inside of the hoof.
The condition was diagnosed on Labor Day but Koch said that Secretariat’s condition “rapidly worsened” Tuesday, putting the chestnut stallion in “extreme pain for the first time.”
Koch said that Walter Kaufman, resident veterinarian at the farm, put the animal to sleep.
As a good anon would, I had to "fact check" this.
According to the LA Times, Secretariat was humanely destroyed in Paris in October 1989.
Clarification: (Paris, KY)
Sauce:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-05-sp-984-story.html
Thanks for the chuckle 😂. Humanely Destroyed ! Kek
I note that we are coming up on the 32 year delta of when the fatal condition was diagnosed for Secretariat...Labor Day.
We are not naively participating in horse comms are we?