Secretariat’s Meadow – The Land, The Family, The Legend

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  • A Good Hand on a Horse…the Grooms of Meadow Stable

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                                            In honor of February as Black History Month, we’d like to share some stories about the African-American grooms of The Meadow in Doswell, Virginia, birthplace of Secretariat.  Though they were never well known like Secretariat’s racetrack groom Eddie Sweat and exercise rider Charlie Davis,  the grooms in Doswell were the first to take care of Big Red and the other…