Secretariat’s Army Taught Jason Kelce a Valuable Lesson

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The former Eagles star and incoming ESPN analyst aired half-baked assertions that the 1973 Triple Crown winner was on steroids.

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A day after Kelce publicly aired half-baked assertions that the 1973 Triple Crown winner was on steroids—“Secretariat was juiced to the gills,” he declared on the New Heights podcast, then initially doubled down on social media—the daughter of the horse’s owner had some choice words to Sports Illustrated in response.

“My reaction was outrage,” says Kate Tweedy, whose mother, Penny Tweedy Chenery, owned the horse during his run to equine immortality. “Because he was talking through his hat, obviously, but also because it was so unfair.”