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Touring Claiborne Farm, The Resting Place Of Secretariat In Paris, Kentucky

May 29, 2019 By Shae Pepper 8 Comments

The final stop on my horse tour of Kentucky is where the life of a race horse begins and, for some of the greats, ends – Claiborne Farm.

Claiborne Farm is about 30 minutes outside of Lexington, KY and is home to some of the greatest horses for breeding and the resting place of Secretariat, arguably the greatest race horse of all time.

Claiborne Farm covers over 3,000 acres, but it started with only 1,300 acres over 100 years ago. It now has 11 active stallions and 35 barns. This year, provided the last holdout (as of my visit on May 20, 2019) was born and stood up, Claiborne Farm will have had 151 standing foals.

Speaking of foals… let’s talk about the real action at Claiborne. The breeding shed is still original from the 1920’s. Six out of 13 Triple Crown winners were conceived in that shed. Horse racing still requires breeding to happen (mostly) the old-fashioned way. This means no artificial insemination – it’s all natural – but unless you have 4 people who help you in the bedroom and run tests on the semen for sperm count (and more), that’s about it for the old-fashioned way.

Racing stallions aren’t just fast on the race course it seems; four mares were bred the morning I toured in approximately 22 minutes.

We got to meet some of the studs at Claiborne Farm. They each had a personality as big as their… uh… faces.

First up was Runhappy – the 2015 Breeders Cup Sprint Winner. He has an estimated value of $11,000,000. Beautiful and sweet, we were able to pet him and get pictures.

When a horse stays in the same stall for their entire tenure at Claiborne Farm, their name plate remains on the stall and the newest resident’s name plate goes at the top. Runhappy has some big horse shoes to fill, having his name on the stall that housed Secretariat and Bold Ruler during their time at Claiborne.

Here is the name plate for the stable currently housing Orb, but previously housing Round Table – the World’s Largest Money Winner.

We then visited some of the other stallions in the barn. Some were just for viewing and some for feeding peppermints. Race horses, as with other horses I’ve heard, love peppermints.

It was then time for the current star of the farm – War Front. He’s the sire of War of Will who was a part of the 145th Kentucky Derby controversy and winner of the 2019 Preakness Stakes. War Front was gorgeous, sleek and soft. He was friendly enough not only for pets, but for hugs!

Everyone was smelling him. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to smell; not being a horse person, he smelled to me like… clean horse. But, when in Rome (roam!?), sniff the horse.

A side note: if you – like me – are concerned about the size of the stalls, the stallions are only in there before and after breeding. They spend 16+ hours a day out in the paddock.

At the end of the stallion portion of the tour, we came to my favorite horse of the day – Blame.

He was so cute with his peppermint routine. He LOVES peppermint. Rather than crunching it up, he savors it by biting his peppermint in half and placing part of it under his front lip. Then he slurps up some water and sloshes it around while he sucks on his treat. He then stares at you with his tongue out while he enjoys every moment of his tour time.

Our tour was finally coming to a close, but there was still one place to see, a place that’s one of the main reasons people make the trip to Claiborne Farm. To see the resting place of Secretariat who won the Triple Crown when he was 3 and won the Belmont Stakes that year by 31 lengths.

Secretariat is buried in one of the cemeteries close to the offices. Horses are normally cremated and only their head, heart and hooves (which are said to represent the body, heart and soul) are buried.

There are five horses buried whole in the cemetery that holds Secretariat which is incredibly rare, although it became a more common practice at Claiborne in the 1980s.

Secretariat, Mr. Prospector, Round Table, Nijinsky and Swale are all buried whole. Even more rare than being buried whole, Secretariat and Man O’ War were both embalmed as well.

Swale is remembered for being very young. He’d won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in his third year. He had a normal training run and was being hot-walked (cooled down) to head to his bath and he sat down, laid down and died of a heart attack in just two minutes.

This was a bittersweet end to the Claiborne Farm tour. We had an excellent tour guide in Kevin. He was funny and informative. The cost for the tour was $20 per person, so I went alone keeping our budget in mind. It was costly, but if you’re a horse person – or become interested in the whole industry of horse racing like I did while in Kentucky – it’s worth the visit.

Claiborne Farm, 703 Winchester Rd, Paris, KY 40361

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June 9, 2020 at 10:58 am

My friend and I are coming to Lexington end of June. Will we be able to tour Claiborne Farm and see grave of Secretariat ? We are seniors.

February 17, 2023 at 1:21 pm

My husband and I are bringing our 14 year old granddaughter, a horse lover, to Kentucky and Tennessee in June. We plan on visiting Clairborn Farms . Is the breeding tour appropriate for a 14 year old, and should we have a “discuss ” beforehand?

February 19, 2023 at 4:10 pm

I’m not sure about what the “breeding tour” is – if you’re taking the tour I did then I’d think it’s fine since I assume they know where babies come from. We didn’t watch anything happen on our tour just heard about it. It’s worth remembering that it’s discussed as a natural process not insemination and obviously the idea of consent isn’t something in the animal kingdom. Horses are brought in and expected to breed and people pay for the chance at getting a foal from the process. There may be a bawdy joke or two but I don’t remember it being a particularly saucy part of the tour.

March 17, 2023 at 12:44 pm

My cousin, an attorney, was with me when we went to the Breeding Stable at Ashford. He saw the price sheet for stud service and replied “And to think, I’ve been doing it for free all these years.” To which I replied, “Yeah, but nobody wants another lawyer.”

July 31, 2023 at 10:08 am

We were at Claiborne in 1985 and had the absolute privilege to meet Big Red himself. It still thrills us to see the pix of us with Secretariat and touching him and talking to him. Can anyone tell me who the handler was at that time? He was a tall man with grey hair who couldn’t have been nicer to us.

July 31, 2023 at 10:14 am

We had the absolute privilege and delight to meet Secretariat at Claiborne Farm in 1985. It still thrills us to see our photos of the two of us standing next to Big Red and touching and talking to him. Can anyone please tell us the name of his handler from that time?

January 28, 2024 at 3:21 am

Hi Lorraine. How lucky you were to get quality time with The Great One, as I think of him!!

I think you’re asking who Secretariat’s primary Groom was. The name & image I’ve seen most often in photos over the years with Secretariat is groom Bobby Anderson. But I imagine there were other grooms who also attended to Big Red during his nearly 16 years at Claiborne.

Hope the below is helpful in your identifying the groom who you’re remembering: a link to an article containing several photos of Bobby Anderson. https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/5969/close-and-personal-court-king-secretariat-recalling-one-acolytes-pilgrimage/

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50 years after Secretariat's Triple Crown win, visit his final resting place at Claiborne Farm

PARIS, Ky. (LEX 18) — This year marks the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown win.

I've been doing a deep dive on "Big Red," and what better place to learn more about him then the place where he lived for many years, Claiborne Farm in Paris.

Twice a day, all year long, southern hospitality and a lesson in the horse industry can be found at the farm.

Gillian Murtagh Anderberg and her husband Eric traveled from Rockford, Illinois.

"I ride horses myself, so I've got a huge appreciation for thoroughbreds, good breeding, and the kind of program they have here, so it's an amazing opportunity to see the top of the field, the gold standard for what we do with horses," Anderberg said.

Of course, the top attraction walking where the mighty Secretariat once stood in retirement.

Chris Hartling, who is visiting from Utah said, "It's amazing, it's one of those... it's almost hallowed ground. Because he was such an amazing horse."

"Over the years we've had a lot of strange requests like people wanting to get married over top his grave... And like I said, people will just break down and cry. It's amazing what he meant to so many people," Walker Hancock, President of Claiborne Farm said.

The fame of Secretariat has extended to Claiborne Farm and the industry itself, attracting fans who then get a better appreciation for the horse world.

Visiting during Secretariat's 50th anniversary felt a little more special for some.

"Especially seeing the stall where Secretariat used to stand," Anderberg said. "It's unbelievable."

Because it's about more than the passage of time, more than setting records that still stand today. It's about celebrating memories.

If you'd like to visit Claiborne Farm, book a tour at Visit - Claiborne (claibornefarm.com) .

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Secretariat's final resting place

You would expect that this renowned thoroughbred farm would be impressive. Such beautiful country. The tour guide will introduce you to some handsome looking racing horses, and studs, show you the stable and paddock in which Secretariat stayed and played, and the cemetery of their most famous winning thoroughbreds. There are many thoroughbred horse farms in the area that you can visit but Secretariat, in life and death, is the draw here.

We visited in September 2014 and got lucky enough to have John as our guide! He was so knowledgable and truly had a passion for the farm and the horses. The farm is beautiful and it was very cool to be able to come face to face with such valuable athletes. John took several of the horses, including Kentucky Derby winner Orb and War Front, out of their stalls for us to visit and take photos of. The tour concluded in one of the farms cemeteries where such horses as Secretariat, Bold Ruler, Mr. Prospector, and Riva Ridge were buried. A very cool experience and highly recommended!

Reservations requiried since they only do two small group tours a day. We were lucky enough to email the evening before and still get into a tour; it was midweek but i'm sure they fill up fast on the weekends. Our amazing tour was given by Rodeo. He was full of great information and even took time after the tour to answer the many questions I had. Mom (who's really not a horsey person) and I had a wonderful time. Thank you Claiborne Farms for an inside look of your famed farm.

Great 1 hour tour. Very informative! I encourage everyone to do the tour. Even if you are not big into horse racing you will still get a lot out of this tour. Seeing the stallions up close and actually getting to pat a derby winner is truly amazing! Make sure when you are in the area to do this tour. It is an hour well spent!

Not only are you guided around this still working horse farm by an informative guide (for FREE), but you can actually touch some of the great stud horses residing there, including last year's Kentucky Derby winner ORB. We learned so much about the breeding process and business. Our guide was so informative. The stallions are magnificent and it was wonderful to get to stroke them while have a picture taken. I learned that they like peppermint candies as treats! The grave sites of famous deceased residents, including Secretariat are part of the tour. They have two morning tours and reservations are absolutely necessary. While the tour is free it is customary (and I think expected) that the grooms doing the tour be tipped. You will want to. Would recommend you go to the restrooms before the tour starts (facilities on site). Our tour was only suppose to last 45 mins. but it was about an hour and a half. Our guide was very accommodating. It was very moving to be on a farm that housed 6 of the 11 Triple Crown Winners. Amazing.

If you love horses you will love the tour. Great information and easy to get to. You are able to interact with the horses and are receptive to questions.

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Secretariat, bold ruler - somethingroyal, by *princequillo, lifetime race record: 21-16-3-1, $1,316,808.

Bred and owned by Meadow Stable Trained by Lucien Laurin.

1973 - 9th U.S. Triple Crown Winner

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Dam of Stakes Winner in Ireland, Secreto; Dam of 3x Champion Hurdle Winner, Istabraq

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Multiple Graded Stakes Winner; Kentucky Derby Contender; Sire

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Melbourne Cup Winner; Millionaire; Sire

Lady's Secret

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Belmont Stakes Winner; Preakness Stakes Winner; Champion 3YO; Sire

Multiple Graded Stakes Winner; Dam of Stakes Winner Gone West

Multiple Stakes Placed; Dam of Champion 2YO & Sire Dehere.

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The story of “Big Red” begins with a 1969 coin toss to determine who got first pick of the foals produced by sending certain Meadow Stable mares to Ogden Phipps’ important sire, Bold Ruler. Phipps “won” the toss and selected a weanling filly, thus leaving the Chenery family’s Meadow Stable with the yet-unborn 1970 foal out of Somethingroyal.

By the end of 1972, Secretariat was the first-ever, two-year-old Horse of the Year, edging out Claiborne-raised La Prevoyante in year-end balloting. In 1973, he became the darling of not just horseracing but the entire nation; he won the Triple Crown in record time for all three events; graced the covers of Time, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek; repeated as Horse of the Year; and forever raised the bar by which all Thoroughbreds are measured.

Between his two- and three-year-old seasons, Meadow Stable’s founder Christopher Chenery passed away, and daughter Penny Chenery called upon the new master of Claiborne Farm, 23-year-old Seth Hancock, to syndicate Secretariat in order to settle estate taxes without liquidating the farm’s bloodstock. Syndicating a colt who had not yet raced at three, with a record price tag of $6.08 million and contractual terms calling for him to race for Meadow Stables in 1973 was a monumental task, and in a matter of days Hancock pulled it off with established Claiborne clients as well as new investors.

Larger than life, Secretariat was more than the “Super Horse” Time magazine dubbed him when he graced its cover. The bright chestnut with three white stockings was the most celebrated racehorse of all time and the only non-human ranked among ESPN’s 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century.

Taking over the premier stall at Claiborne, that of his sire Bold Ruler, Secretariat left his enduring mark on the breed first through the exploits of his own sons and daughters (such as dual Classic winner, Risen Star, and Horse-of-the-Year, Lady’s Secret). More emphatically, his impact as a champion sire of broodmares reshaped the breed through some of the most celebrated sires of the last quarter-century, chief among them Storm Cat and A.P. Indy.

In 1989, after Secretariat was euthanized to prevent further suffering from incurable laminitis, a necropsy revealed what his fans always knew – Secretariat had a huge heart. His organs were all normal in size and shape except his heart which was twice the size and a third heavier than normal. “He was the man,” said Claiborne manager John Sosby, “He was the one they wanted to see … and rightly so.”

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Graves of Greatness. Where horse racing champions like Barbaro, Secretariat are buried

Many people travel to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in central Kentucky with flowers to place on the graves.

Often there are tears.

Once a visitor fell to his knees when he realized the remains of Taylor Special — a Thoroughbred horse with 21 wins and about $1 million in earnings — rested under the ground beneath him.

The guest had once worked at Belmont Park racetrack in New York, and for two years, that horse was his best friend. 

Michael Blowen, who owns Old Friends Farm and the cemetery attached to it, has seen all types of reactions when horse enthusiasts find themselves at the graves of champions. 

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These incredible athletes evoke powerful emotions even from several feet underground. 

Just as people travel to Louisville to visit the grave of boxing great Muhammad Ali or venture out to Colma, California, to pay respects to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, horse enthusiasts seek out their own four-legged champions.

Kentucky, with its expansive horse farms and iconic racing tracks, is so often seen as the heartbeat of the horse racing industry.

And when a horse's heart stops, often, they're laid to rest here, too. 

These horses leave more than the competition in their dust. They make a lasting impression on their fans, and that doesn’t change when their racing days are done and their stud time has passed.

Ahead of the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby , I spent some time tracking down a few of our sleeping giants. Some Derby winners, and others who made a name for themselves in other ways.

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The great Secretariat, who became a Triple Crown winner in 1973 is buried at Claiborne Farm in Bourbon County. 

You can visit with the remains of Bold Forbes, who won the 1976 Kentucky Derby, at the Kentucky Horse Park near the Hall of Champions show ring. War Admiral, who became the fourth winner of the Triple Crown in 1937, is also at the park near the Man O' War memorial.

Now, that's a burial story. 

Man O’ War  is known as the greatest horse who never raced in the Kentucky Derby . He won 20 of his 21 races, and only lost to an ironically named horse called "Upset." He came out on top in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, but he wasn't entered in the 1920 Kentucky Derby because his owner didn't believe in racing horses so young. 

When Man O' War died in 1947, a dynamic bronze statue of him was installed over his farmyard grave. His casket and the monument were later moved to the Lexington Horse Park in 1977. 

Let's pause there for a moment. Man O War was so larger than life that his body was embalmed, and he was actually buried in a casket. 

Elderly horses die of the same things people do — cancers, heart attacks, falling — but what happens next looks quite a bit different.

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Very few horses go into the ground the same way human remains do are. Most are cremated or buried in pieces. 

Blowen actually explained this to me better than anyone else probably could have. He has 83 grave markers in his cemetery, and he only buried the first horse to pass, Precisionist, in 2006.

That happened because he didn't know any better, he told me. 

A backhoe worked for 13 hours to dig a hole big enough for Precisionist, Blowen told me. The Kentucky limestone that makes our bourbon so delicious also makes it incredibly difficult to dig a hole large enough for a 1,000-pound horse. 

Every other horse at Old Friends since then has been cremated. A horse hearse of sorts comes to pick up the bodies and transports them to the University of Kentucky to be cremated. When they come back to the farm, they're in a large box the size of a small chest. Remember, these animals are more than seven times the size of the average human. 

Those ashes aren't going to fit in an urn on your mantle like a person's would. 

But it's much easier than burying a whole horse. 

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Perhaps, the most iconic horse gravesite in the country is right at Churchill Downs itself.

The statue of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro welcomes fans every year to the historic racetrack and the Kentucky Derby Museum . It’s right outside Gate 1, and it’s impossible to miss.

It’s not just a monument and selfie spot, it’s a grave. That’s actually where his ashes are buried.

Two weeks after he won the Kentucky Derby, Barbaro shattered his leg in the Preakness Stakes, which led to his untimely death. 

The Kentucky Derby Museum is also home to five other horse graves. There are tombstones for Carry Back (1961), Swaps (1955), Brokers Tip (1933), and Sunny's Halo (1983).

Dust Commander, who won the 1970 Kentucky Derby, most recently joined the throng in 2013. The location of his remains had been lost to memory, and the museum worked with members of his owner's family to track the original grave down. His skeleton was discovered on a farm in Paris, Kentucky, placed in a handcrafted box and shipped to Louisville to be buried at the museum. 

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Not every burial mystery ends so clearly, though, Jessica Whitehead, the curator of collections at the Kentucky Derby Museum told me. Most thoroughbred racehorses live well into their 20s, and so much time passes between their stardom and their deaths — each horse that races in the Kentucky Derby is a 3-year-old — it's not uncommon to lose track of them. 

She would love to know where the first Kentucky Derby winner, Aristides, rests. He was ridden over the finish line by Black jockey Oliver Lewis and lived out the rest of his end at Oakland Farms in St. Louis.

The champion is likely buried somewhere on the 475 or so acres that once made up the farm, but it’s unclear where. You can't place flowers on that grave or honor his legacy with a visit because we don't know where he is. 

One of Whitehead's favorite burial stories is about Black Gold, who won the 1924 Kentucky Derby. Black Gold was an impeccable racehorse, but he was very much an underdog. He won his first race at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans in 1923, and that's where he's buried today.

His tombstone is in the center of the track, and each year during the Black Gold Stakes, which is named in his honor, the winning jockey rests flowers on the grave. 

A story like Black Gold's is a good reminder that these horses aren't just athletes, they're legends. 

Listening to Blowen talk about Precisionist, I felt that, too. 

In his lifetime, Precisionist captured 17 stakes wins in five season s , and earned a spot in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.

To the horseracing world, the animal was known for more than $3.4 million in lifetime earnings and his 17 stakes wins in the late 1980s.

To Blowen? He was his buddy, who suffered from nasal cancer. Most nights at the farm he’d sip on a beer while the horse noshed on some carrots in the barn. 

Until one night in 2006, more than 18 years or so after his last big win, the champion looked at the carrots and just wouldn’t bite.

It was time to let him go.

They all have to go at one point or another. 

Their memories and their stories carry even more weight than that pillow-sized box of ashes. 

Just ask anyone who travels hundreds of miles and drops flowers at their graves.  

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24 Feb Combo Tours in Horse Country: 2-in-1 Tickets

What’s better than one Horse Country tour?! A pre-planned itinerary for two of them!  Introducing Combo Tours for 2020 – kicking off with six pairings of our tours: Claiborne + Runnymede, Gainesway + Denali, Spendthrift + Maker’s Mark Secretariat Center, Stonestreet + New Vocations, Hallway + Ky Equine Adoption Center, and Coolmore + Blackwood, We’ve worked to pair these locations up for you and included suggestions for local restaurants to fill out your day. Each Combo Tour has their own availability and schedule – be sure and check out their individual listings, linked in the info below.

Claiborne and Runnymede

Begin your day visiting well-known stallions and Secretariat’s grave at historic Claiborne Farm, where the past meets the present in everyday life. Your afternoon tour at Runnymede Farm will allow you to get up close at a nursery farm, where horses are bred and raised at the oldest working thoroughbred farm in Kentucky. Info and booking about Claiborne + Runnymede Combo Tour here . Select Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays in February, March, September .

Gainesway and Denali

Begin your day visiting mares and foals at Denali Stud, in Paris, a family-owned boutique nursery farm. Your afternoon tour will take you to visit the well-known stallions, unique barn architecture, and pristine landscaping at Gainesway Farm. Info and booking about Denali and Gainesway Combo Tour here . Wednesdays in May.

Spendthrift and Maker’s Mark Secretariat Center

Begin your day visiting well-known stallions at historic Spendthrift Farm, home to OMAHA BEACH, MALIBU MOON, and others. Your next tour at Maker’s Mark Secretariat Center will allow you to get up close at an aftercare facility, where retired thoroughbreds are retrained for new careers and adopted to their forever homes.  Info and booking about Spendthrift and Secretariat Center Combo Tour here . Select Thursdays in April & May.

Stonestreet and New Vocations

Begin your experience at Stonestreet’s nursery, where their broodmare band produces an average of 80 foals a year. Each foal represents an expression of their unwavering pursuit to cultivate champions. Guests will have the opportunity to see horses up close and personal as they walk through the barns and enjoy a short driving tour through the property on Stonestreet’s dedicated vehicle.

Next, you’ll visit New Vocations, the largest racehorse adoption program in the country serving more than 500 horses a year. Here you’ll learn about re-training retired racehorses and the unique work of aftercare in the industry.

This is a special pairing, as Stonestreet donates proceeds from their tour program to New Vocations to support their ongoing work in aftercare. Additionally, Stonestreet entrusts the future careers of their retirees that do not enter their breeding program to New Vocations. Info and booking for the Stonestreet and New Vocations Combo Tour is here. Fridays in April, May & June.

Hallway and KY Equine Adoption Center

Begin your day visiting family-owned Hallway Feeds, who has supplied the feed that has fueled most of racing’s greatest athletes of our time. From there, you’ll visit KY Equine Adoption Center, where you will see and learn just how important things like nutrition is to horses looking for a new home, at Kentucky’s only all-breed horse rescue. Info and booking on Hallway and KY Equine Adoption Center Combo Tour is here . Fridays in June, July, August .

Coolmore and Blackwood Stables

We’ve built the itinerary for you on Mondays in July, August, and October 2020– just enjoy a day in the Land of Legends! Begin your day visiting Blackwood Stables, an olympic-style training facility for the next generation of champions. In the afternoon, this reservation also gains you admittance to legendary breeding farm Coolmore America, whose stallion roster over the years has earned them the moniker Home of Champions. Info and booking for the Blackwood Stables and Coolmore Combo Tour is here . Mondays in July, August and October.

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Dedication of Secretariat Park — November 11, 2023

On November 11, 1973 the most famous racehorse of the day was led off the van and began another stage in his career. This racehorse was the Triple Crown Winner, Secretariat. Fifty years to the exact date of his arrival in Bourbon County, the small town of Paris, Kentucky will celebrate all that was and still is Big Red!

Secretariat Park will be dedicated at Noon on November 11, 2023, in the center of historic downtown Main Street. The park is the crowning jewel for this community’s efforts in raising the $500,000 needed, and in just over a year. Not only generous donations from local private citizens, horse farms and industry, but from all over the USA, this park was built with love for a horse that seems to have transcended all time… all spearheaded by the dedicated and passionate members of the Secretariat Park Foundation. Visit here to learn more.

Secretariat Park is designed to celebrate the “life of the legend.” The largest mural of Secretariat in the world looms over the grounds. Painted by renowned equine artist, Jaime Corum, it depicts “the big red machine” breaking through the red brick wall, racing to the finish line. Storytelling pillars rise from the ground to tell the life story of Secretariat, a limestone wall of honor stands in the back of the park, benches, light posts, and pavers have been named in honor of donors… but the unforgettable attraction is a life size bronze statue of Secretariat. This statue created by the famous equine sculptor, Jocelyn Russell, depicts Big Red, as the people in Paris knew him, in his paddock at Claiborne Farm. Created from a photo taken by equine photographer, Tony Leonard.

Secretariat lived the remainder of his life standing stud at Claiborne, and to this day over 10,000 visitors a year still come to visit his grave. Now they have a place to make memories with their family and friends, in a small park, on an historic Main Street in a small town that loves Secretariat.

In addition to the opening of Secretariat Park, several community events are planned around this historic event, including the Legends of Bourbon County Festival! LEARN MORE

Make your plans today to visit us for this incredible event!

Contact the Paris Bourbon County Tourism office if you have any questions.

Paris Bourbon County Tourism Commission 806 Main Street Paris, Kentucky 40361 859-987-8744 [email protected]

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Secretariat’s Legend Rolls on Like, Well, a Tremendous Machine

Fifty years after Secretariat clinched the Triple Crown with a runaway win in the Belmont Stakes, fans still long to connect with his story.

By Melissa Hoppert

It was a performance for the ages, growing more mythic as time goes on. Having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in record fashion, Secretariat rocketed out of the starting gate on June 9, 1973 — his best start yet — and never let up. He moved “liked a tremendous machine,” as the announcer Chic Anderson put it, and crushed his competition by a whopping 31 lengths to win the Belmont Stakes on an uncomfortably warm but utterly joyous afternoon at Belmont Park.

Like his lead in the Belmont, his legend has swelled even though his youngest current fans had not even been born when he was crowned the ninth Triple Crown champion and the first in 25 years. Nine of the best 3-year-olds in the country will face off Saturday during the 50th anniversary celebration of Secretariat’s Triple Crown feat, but none will even come close to achieving the superstar status of the big red horse.

“I was amazed with that horse all along,” said his jockey, Ron Turcotte, who at 81 is the lone survivor of Secretariat’s inner circle, which included the owner Penny Chenery, the trainer Lucien Laurin and the groom Eddie Sweat. “He was doing things that we’ve never seen before that we’ll probably never see again.”

In the Derby, Secretariat broke a step slow, but Turcotte, unworried, let the colt find his legs and run his race. At the top of the stretch, Turcotte asked for more, and Secretariat zipped past his rival Sham to win by two and a half lengths in 1 minute 59⅖ seconds. He ran each quarter-mile faster than the one before, unheard-of in horse racing.

In the Preakness, Turcotte made a bold decision to launch a spectacular move on the first turn. After taking the lead, Secretariat was never challenged, and he won by two and a half lengths. Sham again settled for second. Secretariat’s final time was recorded as 1:55, a second slower than the Preakness record. But clockers recorded faster times, and by Monday, the stewards voted to change the official time to their clocker’s mark of 1:54⅖, still short of the record. It wasn’t until 2012, after Chenery hired companies to conduct a forensic review of the race using technology that hadn’t existed in 1973, that the Maryland Racing Commission agreed to change the official time to 1:53, establishing the record at last .

Then came the Belmont, his pièce de résistance. If Anderson’s call of the race was the pinnacle of his lyrical craft, then a picture credited to the track photographer Bob Coglianese was its visual counterpart. It shows Secretariat head on, hooves hovering above the track in full flight, as Turcotte looks over his left shoulder at the timer that would register Secretariat as running the Belmont in 2:24, two seconds faster than any horse before or after. A blue-and-white checked pole — the color of Chenery’s silks — marks the margin of victory, almost unbelievable in scope. “I still had a lot of horse when I passed the wire,” Turcotte said. “He wasn’t even sweating.”

Adam Coglianese, who took over as official track photographer when his father retired, said of the photograph: “That stride is exactly what we would look for today. It’s basically dumb luck. When you shoot one frame, like they did back then, you can’t plan what you’re going to get.”

A recent account questioned whether Bob Coglianese, who was the New York Racing Association’s track photographer for over 50 years, had taken the picture at all. Adam Coglianese disputed any claim to the contrary but acknowledged that he knew little of the particulars of the black-and-white shot, including whether it had even been developed that night.

“He was very cautious about everything we did,” Adam Coglianese said of his father. “I don’t think people understand what goes into preparing for a Triple Crown. For weeks going into American Pharoah’s race, I was drawing a map of where each of my 20 photographers would stand.”

Whether Bob Coglianese, who died last year at 88, or someone else on his team shot the image only seems to add to the horse’s legend, which extended far beyond the racetrack.

Star Status, in Retirement and Death

In Paris, Ky., off Secretariat Way, sits Claiborne Farm, one of America’s most storied breeding operations. Its black-and-yellow breeding shed, built in 1910, has produced 22 winners of the Derby, 20 of the Preakness, 22 of the Belmont and six of the 13 Triple Crown champions, including Secretariat.

A corner stall in the stallion barn still bears Secretariat’s name and that of his sire, Bold Ruler, among those of other elites who have inhabited the space. Father and son are buried behind the office in a graveyard that is a who’s who of thoroughbred royalty.

On most days, Secretariat’s modest gravestone is draped with mementos from fans, who mark every birthday and anniversary with roses — some red, some painted blue. They also leave pennies, a nod to Chenery, an unlikely heroine who took over her father’s farm early in Secretariat’s career and saved it with the horse’s Triple Crown run and the $6.08 million syndication of his breeding rights, a record at the time.

“He kind of was like a rallying cry for America,” the Claiborne president, Walker Hancock, said, invoking the era of Richard Nixon, the Watergate scandal and the end of the Vietnam War. “He kind of brought everyone together after everyone was so divided.”

Secretariat’s popularity — he graced the covers of Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated and was the subject of a Disney movie — reinvigorated the farm from the day he arrived on Nov. 12, 1973, when several hundred people greeted him at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington. Thousands more flocked to Claiborne each year. So many showed up that a privacy fence had to be erected alongside the road.

“They thought they could just walk over and pet a stallion,” Joe Peel, the stallion manager, said with a chuckle.

The tours have continued since Secretariat’s death on Oct. 4, 1989, at age 19 from laminitis, a painful hoof disease. Dr. Thomas Swerczek of the University of Kentucky performed Secretariat’s necropsy and estimated his heart to be about 21 to 22 pounds, or nearly two and a half times larger than the average thoroughbred’s.

As with the photograph, there is no proof, as the necropsy was performed hastily and without proper equipment and documentation, according to an interview in 2020 . But Swerczek stood by his assertion until he died last year at 82.

Outlasting the Field, and Time

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has not had a traveling exhibit in over two decades. It took Secretariat’s milestone to get the museum back on the road.

The exhibit, titled “A Tremendous Machine” after Anderson’s call of the race, has followed Secretariat’s Triple Crown path, traveling to Louisville, Baltimore and now Elmont, N.Y. Its final stop will be at Colonial Downs in September because Secretariat was born in Virginia, at Chenery’s Meadow Farm.

Along the way, organizers have been collecting stories and photographs from visitors. Some saw Secretariat race; others visited him at the farm. Some owned his descendants. Several have locks of his hair. One man, who was stationed overseas while in the Army in 1973, recalled listening to the Belmont on the radio and crying tears of joy.

“It just makes people feel so good,” said Cate Masterson, the director of the museum, which will host a larger Secretariat exhibit this summer. “It’s a trip down memory lane.”

In Paris, Secretariat’s adopted hometown, a new three-story mural gives the appearance of Turcotte and Secretariat charging down Main Street. A park and a statue are planned beneath.

Lyra Miller, who operates a bed-and-breakfast on her horse farm, hosts visitors who return yearly to visit Secretariat’s grave. She also owns a diner on Main Street named Lil’s Coffee Shop.

The week of the Derby, she chatted with regulars, one of whom was a 96-year-old veterinarian, Dr. Robert Copelan, who treated Secretariat during his Triple Crown quest. The feat was fresh on people’s minds even 50 years later. One by one, they pondered the legends: the records, the earth-shattering performance, the woman in charge, the champion’s heart.

“It’s crazy, isn’t it?” Miller said. “People talk about him as if he’s still alive. In a way, he still is.”

Melissa Hoppert , a deputy editor for live coverage, joined The Times in 2006. She helped create the horse racing blog The Rail and has directed coverage of the N.F.L. and college sports. More about Melissa Hoppert

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Fifty years after his Triple Crown, Secretariat remains an immortal wonder

The 1973 Triple Crown winner died more than 30 years ago. But in the minds of so many, he remains unusually alive.

PARIS, Ky. — Consider this timeline of a Kentuckian and a horse: Walker Hancock joined us on Earth in mid-August 1989 and Secretariat left us Oct. 4, 1989, so they coexisted for all of 52 days. Hancock apparently slept through Secretariat’s funeral, according to a well-placed source (his mother). “I hopefully wasn’t crying,” he said, “or I would have been escorted out.”

Yet as a routine of Hancock’s presidency nowadays at Claiborne Farm, where he grew up and Secretariat lived the last 16 of his 19 years, humans of certain ages approach Hancock as if aching to share their stories of a nonhuman whose 33-year absence has burned with his abiding presence. “They saw him break his maiden,” Hancock said. “They saw him lose. Or they saw his last race. They all have a memory, and it’s so distinct, too. What the weather was …”

Or consider this timeline of a Kentuckian and a horse: Jaime Corum joined us in November 1973, a week and change after Secretariat’s 21st and final race and 16th and final win at Woodbine near Toronto. Even as she became a “total horse person” and an equine artist, she never did meet Secretariat, a youthful oversight she regrets.

Yet as a function of the fact she has painted him double-digit times upon various canvases, including on a Woodford Reserve bottle honoring the 50-year mark since Secretariat’s Triple Crown, Corum found herself on a hydraulic lift in pretty little downtown Paris, transforming the side of a building into a Secretariat mural that qualifies as striking, dwelling behind the day-to-day sights of a main street. With the bottle and the mural, she said: “I couldn’t believe how much my life was tied to Secretariat. I keep telling other people he’s taking me this year on this wonderful ride.” It has led her to brand Secretariat a unifier of people and say: “He’s one of those things that people always respond to. He’s timely, I think — in the year 2023.”

How Secretariat does still romp through the human consciousness, 50 years after his Triple Crown win of 1973, and 33 years after his death from a hoof disease in 1989, and 13 years after the movie starring Diane Lane as owner Penny Chenery in 2010 . All this time later, he’s prompting a mural, a fresh sculpture, a fresh city park and a parade, all coming to Paris by November to mark the 50-year mark of his relocation to Claiborne Farm, whose stallions have sired six of the 13 Triple Crown winners (including Secretariat).

Of all the people who might take a whack at how this could persist, no one deserves a chance more than Paris-based veterinarian Robert Copelan, who oversaw the healing of one of the more famous abscesses in mammal history , the harrowing one that fell off Secretariat’s upper lip days before the Derby 50 years ago right about now.

Copelan, 96, can retell for the umpteenth time the moment-to-moment that led to the eventual bursting of that painful devil that made a little noise as it fell to the straw, and only a boor would refrain from hearing again the gripping details. He also can remind you that seven horses beat Secretariat in four different races, all in the state of New York. He can remind that some people who know their racehorses go ahead and use the term “the greatest” for, among others, Flightline, the 2022 Breeders’ Cup dominator. Yet in pegging Secretariat’s deathless appeal, he said: “I’m not surprised at that. You know, he went to the Belmont and he won off by 23 lengths, 24 lengths” — eventually, 31 lengths — “and that froze in a lot of folks’ minds. They’d never seen anything like that.”

That might stand tallest amid the bouquet of reasons. It might even epitomize how memory works. Watching that day by television, Copelan thought, “Well, this is going to make a lot of racket.”

He got that right.

For retired thoroughbreds, a Kentucky farm offers a serene final furlong

About 12,000 people per year visit Claiborne Farm, and everyone agrees most do so foremost to see Secretariat’s gravestone among the 23 in the handsome and understated little cemetery. Some cry. Some place pennies atop in honor of Chenery , who died in 2017 at 95.

As a stallion manager and a maestro at the separate art of tour-guiding, Joe Peel explains the privacy fence, built soon after Secretariat’s arrival not by plan but by reaction to the gawkers and would-be patters who kept parking on the road out there. He recites Secretariat’s still-standing records in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. He spreads knowledge, from, “Horses once could climb trees,” to, “Always remember to approach a horse from the left side,” to, “A person can make a nice horse mean,” to, “They’ve got a lot of teeth in their heads.” He shows the barn and stall in which Secretariat lived, nowadays inhabited by Runhappy , whose owners, Hancock pointed out, bought the horse inspired in part by the movie, well, “Secretariat.”

“Routinely every year, this is part of their vacation trip,” Peel said of the tourists. “The come by and cry by at the headstone.” He paused. “They love him.” He paused again. “They love him. And you just step away and let them do their thing.”

A deeply green little drive away at Paris’s Chamber of Commerce, they’re steeped in the 50 years from the various and telling perspectives in one office lobby. Betty Ann Allen says, “Oh, my husband [Jerry] worked out there when Secretariat came, and he was his groom, and people are, like, ‘Oh, can we take a picture with you?’ ” Lauren Biddle, who hadn’t yet joined us when Secretariat raced or lived, says, “I just didn’t know that Secretariat affected people emotionally the way he did.” Allen, referring to Secretariat’s awareness of his stardom: “My husband said he was the pose-iest horse he’d ever seen.” Biddle: “My 4-year-old daughter, she is now a fangirl of Secretariat.” Allen: “The [donors] that touch your heart are the ones that send $6. … It brings tears to your eyes but also gives you goose bumps.”

Just down the way at the singular Lil’s Coffee House, where Copelan dines daily, the restaurant owner knows some things about Secretariat-mania, not just because it’s about to give her business another happy jolt. At her bed-and-breakfast on Rosecrest Farm, she and husband Charles have a Secretariat grandson, Tinner’s Storm.

“Oh, my gosh, there are so many Secretariat crazies,” Lyra Miller said. “In fact, I’ve got two staying at my bed-and-breakfast, checking in today. One’s from Illinois, one’s from North Carolina, and it’s because they met online talking about Secretariat.”

Two more were inbound from Rhode Island.

“I have people that come to my B&B from all over the country, just because they want to see a grandson of Secretariat,” Miller said. She lists a few reasons this could be true — the Triple Crown, the unbroken records, Chenery’s charm — and says: “So I think it’s like a Michael Jordan, whose tennis shoes just sold for $2 million. Every sport has that personality who epitomizes that sport.”

Then she says, “People talk about him like he’s still living, because in their mind he is a live presence.”

She has seen the generations convene at the breakfast table, those who lived during and those who hadn’t joined yet, and she notes how the latter group often relies on the movie, so if a younger moviegoer might note, “He wins every time,” she gently might correct, “Yeah, it’s a movie.”

That same convergence of people has decorated the insights of Tom Nieman, overseer of the design of the new park. He taught landscape architecture at the University of Kentucky for 39 years, remaining non-retired even as he doesn’t teach. He has helped numerous horse farms avoid the pratfall often stated as, “You can’t have a million-dollar horse in a ten-cent landscape.”

In one of those life stories that make life stories, a man who taught at Syracuse in 1973 and felt no meaning from seeing Secretariat on the news back then has wound up calling this Secretariat project “a riot that’s been one of the major highlights of my career,” all while something has struck him. “The people who are putting this together,” he said, “the original group putting this together, are not horse-farm owners, they’re not horse-farm people. They’re people who put up fences, and do landscape work, and live in town. … None of them, as far as I can tell, actually are in day-to-day horse-farm operations.”

So he said of people, in general: “They want to be close to or with someone who was the greatest. And I really think Muhammad Ali and Secretariat have a lot in common in that sense.” Corum, the mural painter, thinks it still matters that Secretariat’s “conformation was perfect” as “this ideal horse,” as “this gorgeous, fiery-chestnut horse.” She thinks it matters that Chenery engaged with fans as “a perfect gentlewoman.” She thinks the records help him outshine future Triple Crown winners, but then it comes back to that old stretch: “And of course, that Belmont. That’s otherworldly. I cry every time I watch that race. I just find it tremendously moving. … Even in athletics, in sports, it’s rare to see something on that level.”

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So people did approach sometimes as she painted, with strokes of help from others such as Miller, who delighted in saying, “I got to paint part of one sock.” Corum said, “If they got to meet Secretariat or touch him or feed him a carrot, some little story, it was so impactful for them,” and she repeated a line attributed locally to photographer Bobby Shiflet at the Frames on Main shop: “He is kind of an Elvis.”

And so, “It never gets old having a stranger tell me their Secretariat stories,” said 33-year-old Walker Hancock, who lived 52 days on Earth with Secretariat. “It’s just awesome that they want to share that experience with me.” That’s before he says, as an aside and a telltale line: “Obviously, I wasn’t around.”

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Joe and Hunter Biden attend church, visit Beau Biden’s grave days before first son’s federal trial

W ILMINGTON, Del. — President Biden and first son Hunter Biden attended church together Thursday morning, four days before jury selection begins in the younger Biden’s trial on federal gun charges.

Biden, 81, and Hunter, 54, attended Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church on the ninth anniversary of the death of Joe Biden’s elder son, Beau.

Photographers captured Hunter and his father walking near each other outside the church’s cemetery, where Beau is buried, though it was unclear if any words were exchanged.

Hunter and Joe Biden then took the presidential helicopter, Marine One, to the first family’s holiday home at nearby Rehoboth Beach, where Biden will remain for the rest of the day.

On Sunday, the president made a surprise visit to the home of Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden , who dated Hunter after his brother died, and who is one of a dozen expected witnesses at the trial.

Hunter Biden is accused of illegally purchasing a .38-caliber Colt revolver in October 2018 by lying about his drug addiction on federal paperwork. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all three counts.

Hallie  disposed of the gun in a public dumpster days after its purchase . Prosecutors say the gun’s holder tested positive for cocaine , which the first son admitted in his 2021 memoir he was using about the same time.

Hunter agreed to a probation-only plea deal to gun and tax crimes last June, but walked away from the “sweetheart” bargain during a dramatic court hearing at which he demanded broad immunity for past conduct, including possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act — which could implicate his father.

Hunter also is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles in September for allegedly  failing to pay more than $1.4 million  in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019 on foreign income received from overseas relationships in which he frequently involved his father, including during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.

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How AI is changing elections around the world

CHENNAI, India — A 20-minute voice recording and a few pictures of a person’s face are all Senthil Nayagam needs to make eerily convincing fake campaign videos in any language.

Political parties in India spent an estimated $16 billion in the world’s largest election that culminated Tuesday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed victory despite a weakened mandate .

In what has been called India’s first “artificial intelligence election,” significant campaign funds were spent in hiring artists such as Nayagam, chief executive of the Chennai-based start-up Muonium AI, to deploy deepfakes promoting or discrediting candidates that spread like wildfire across social media. 

These videos use artificial intelligence to generate believable but false depictions of real people saying or doing just about anything creators want, from a video of Modi dancing to a Bollywood song to a politician who died in 2018 being resurrected to endorse his friend’s run for office. 

Experts say that what unfolded in India in the past several weeks is just a preview of the chaos that could upend electoral processes in this year of consequential global elections , including in the U.S. in November. While deepfakes are not new, advances in AI technologies mean they can now be produced at an unprecedented scale, with higher quality and accessibility.“What you’re seeing now is the use of AI tools to be able to take on hundreds of different issues and create lots of different messages around those pieces of conflict at scale,” said Josh Lawson, director of AI and democracy at Aspen Digital.

“It just dilutes the information environment,” he said.

Nayagam is known mainly for his AI work for Bollywood and TV commercials. When political parties he declined to identify asked him for help in their campaigning, he was open to it — up to a point.

“Anything which is unethical, we want to avoid it,” he said. “I don’t want to do what is very controversial.” 

That includes, he said, requests to alter something said in Parliament and to create fake telephonic conversations. “We have solidly refused them,” Nayagam said. 

He also tries to deal with campaign managers rather than politicians directly, and even then he chooses to work with only a few. “I prefer to say no over being sorry for it,” he said. 

Nayagam’s worries stem from a wave of arrests over deepfakes of politicians such as Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah, a top Modi aide. During the election, a video of Shah giving a speech was altered to falsely depict him promoting policy proposals that are unpopular with India’s minority groups.

Though Modi had reshared the deepfake of himself dancing , calling it “truly a delight,” he said the video of Shah was part of a “conspiracy to create tension in society.”

At a soundproof room where he records his clients’ voices, Nayagam showed NBC News reporters a deepfake he made of influential politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi, in his signature yellow scarf and oversized sunglasses, congratulating his friend T.R. Baalu on the launch of his memoir in January. Karunanidhi died in 2018.Baalu, 82, a parliamentary candidate from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where Karunanidhi was chief minister, won his race on Tuesday.

Nayagam also recorded the voice of an NBC News reporter for 20 minutes, even asking her to sing to capture different phonemes and tones. A photographer from his team then took pictures of her in front of a green screen. The audio and pictures were used to make a “model” that would then be used to generate the final deepfake.

In a matter of hours, Nayagam’s team produced a video that showed the reporter speaking fluently in Italian and Hindi, morphed her face into his daughter’s and made her appear as if speaking from the White House. 

“Literally you have been cloned,” he said. “It’s like we have a seed and we can plant it anywhere and it can grow into any kind of tree or jungle.”

AI tasks that used to take days are only going to get faster, Nayagam said: “We will go into minutes and seconds in the future.”

Lawson said there is a risk people could lose sight of what’s reality. “So instead of voting based on facts and verifying what I understand, I am going to vote based on my vibes and intuition,” he said. Worried U.S. lawmakers have taken steps to guard the democratic process against AI, with at least 11 states banning election interference through the use of deepfakes.

Lawmakers in California, home to many of the world’s largest AI companies, are considering a number of AI-related bills, including one that would ban “materially deceptive” deepfakes related to elections in the 120 days before polling.

The lawmakers said they were concerned by AI-generated robocalls New Hampshire Democrats received in January in which a voice mimicking President Joe Biden’s encouraged them not to vote in the state’s primary. Bipartisan legislation banning the use of AI to falsely depict federal candidates has stalled in both the House and Senate and is unlikely to pass before the November election.

Stringent regulations are needed to tackle AI-powered disinformation during elections, said Raman Jit Singh Chima, the Asia-Pacific policy director at Access Now, a U.S.-based nonprofit focusing on digital civil rights. 

The Big Tech platforms where the content is ultimately being shared also have a responsibility in moderating it, he said.

“You need proactive disclosure and regulatory measures on political candidates and parties,” he said.

While it is unclear to what extent AI affected voter perception or influenced results in India, the U.S. and other countries can draw lessons that could be crucial in protecting the integrity of their own elections, Lawson said.

Gathering data over the next few months on how the technology ultimately impacted the Indian election could give that critical insight. 

“We need to do that right now,” he said.

Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.

Janis Mackey Frayer is a Beijing-based correspondent for NBC News.

President, family honor Beau Biden on anniversary of his death, visit veterans memorial

President Joe Biden and various family members, including first lady Jill Biden and son Hunter Biden, visited St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville on Thursday morning to the ninth anniversary of Beau Biden's death.

The president's son and former Delaware attorney general was buried in the church's cemetery after dying of brain cancer at age 46. His family visited his grave following a memorial mass.

The president then met former state Sen. Nancy Cook at Veterans Memorial Park near New Castle before traveling with his family to Rehoboth Beach via the Marine One helicopter, according to reports from the White House press pool.

Biden spent Wednesday night at his Wilmington home after a day of campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia.

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