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Any list of the greatest racehorses of all time is going to include the speedy gray Lady's Secret, and when Blood-Horse Magazine released their "Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century," Lady's Secret came in at #76. She was was a smallish filly at around 900 pounds, but she had a heart as big as her head and backed down from no horse, male or female.

Lady's Secret was the daughter of the great Triple Crown winner Secretariat, out of Great Lady, and she was bred in Oklahoma at Lukas Farm. She was owned throughout her racing career by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Klein, and conditioned by D. Wayne Lukas.

As a two-year-old she was good, showing great promise while winning the Moccasin Stakes, but nobody could predict that would be the first of her 22 career stakes wins. As a three-year-old, she was better, winning several stakes races including a couple of Grade I events, the Beldame Stakes and the Ruffian Handicap. She capped off her sophomore season of 1985 with a second place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff.

As a four-year-old in 1986, Lady's Secret became one of the greats. She raced in fifteen stakes races in 1986 and won ten of them; eight of the ten were Grade I events. She beat the best boys in the country four times that year, and capped it all off with a win in the Breeders' Cup Distaff.

Lady's Secret won the Eclipse Awards as Champion Older Filly and Horse of the Year in 1986. She retired at five in 1989 having won $3,021,325. She died in 2003 and is a member of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame. Check out Lady's Secret in the 1986 Breeders' Cup Distaff: