Lady’s Secret completed a sweep of the...

Lady’s Secret completed a sweep of the New York Racing Assn.’s filly triple crown series for the second consecutive year with a victory in the $271,000 Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park in New York.

The 4-year-old daughter of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, out of the mare Great Lady M, carried 123 pounds, including jockey Pat Day, to a half-length victory over Coup De Fusil in the 1-mile race for fillies and mares 3 years old and up.

Lady’s Secret was timed in 2:01 3/5, bettering by one-fifth of a second the stakes record set by Cum Laude Laurie in 1977 and equalled by Love Sign in 1981.

The victory by Lady’s Secret, after triumphs in the Maskette Stakes and the Ruffian Handicap, was her ninth in 14 starts this year and her 22nd in 39 career races. It was worth $162,600, plus a $27,000 Breeders’ Cup award, to owner Eugene V. Klein and boosted Lady’s Secret’s career earnings to $2,508,325.