I missed this death of three months ago: Jim Gaffney, who was one of Secretariat's exercise riders, died in June at the age of 75. Gaffney had suffered from emphysema.
Secretariat's many fans were honored when Gaffney sold much of his memorabilia on eBay. I received a couple of items, photographs, that he sold on the site, which were autographed by him.
Another article about him is here. It is written by Bill Nack, who wrote the definitive book on Secretariat back in 1975 and wrote one of the greatest feature articles of all time, which was about the death of Secretariat, "Pure Heart."
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