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Final week, retired Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason Kelce made waves when he accused legendary racehorse and 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat of anabolic steroid use. For apparent causes, his wild tweet rant went viral on Twitter.
Many individuals dismissed him as being completely loopy. However, horse racing professional and NBC analyst Randy Moss blended credence to Jason Kelce’s principle in a podcast look launched on Friday.
Right here was Kelce’s authentic rant about Secretariat, after a dialog the place he accused the horse of doping on his podcast along with his brother, Travis Kelce, referred to as New Heights.
Simply going to place this on the market, you understand who else has enlarged hearts. Individuals who take copious quantities of steroids. I’ll admit I don’t know whether or not Secretariat was on steroids or not, it’s inconceivable to know, as a result of in 1973 when Secretariat gained the triple crown there was not…
— Jason Kelce (@JasonKelce) Might 9, 2024
Randy Moss was on Barstool Sports activities’ Pardon My Take, as he normally is throughout the run to the Triple Crown. And, they requested Randy Moss in regards to the allegations of Secretariat presumably having used steroids. As an alternative of outwardly rejecting them, he gave them some credibility.
Look, Secretariat was operating at a time, the place I’m informed, anabolic steroid use was rampant in thoroughbred racing. When Secretariat was retired, he had some immature sperm. That was a priority to breeders. That occurs to be a side-effect of anabolic steroid use. Does that imply he was undoubtedly on steroids? No. I, when he died, he had the post-mortem completed, he had an enlarged coronary heart, which once more, is a aspect impact, one of many unintended effects of anabolic steroids. So, you understand, there’s a, I believe a reasonably sturdy chance that Secretary was racing on anabolic steroids. However right here’s the deal. So had been the opposite horses. He was operating towards proper? If Secretariat was on anabolic steroid, you understand, Sham was. It wasn’t simply Lucien Lauren, the coach of Secretariat, that had entry to these items.
Wait. Is America’s favourite horse a cheat? It appears as if Randy Moss thinks that’s fairly possible. That will be an actual disgrace. At this level, it looks as if lots of people owe Jason Kelce an apology.
