Being Sham in Secretariat's year.

It's a long race ahead.

Maybe you’re not aware of Sham, the horse with the broken heart.

He died in 1993, near the end of my first year in college, the year I lost my grandma.

Sham’s death was certainly meaningless for most; there wasn’t much press coverage for a race horse who, had he been in his prime any other year but 1973, probably would have been a Triple Crown winner.

But…