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Thoroughbred Champions: Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century | 
 enlarge | Author: The Blood-horse Staff
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 33886
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 255
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1581500246
Dewey Decimal Number: 798
EAN: 9781581500240
ASIN: 1581500246
Publication Date: October 25, 2000
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Follows The Blood-Horse's Top 100 list, beginning with Man o' War in the No. 1 spot and ending with Blue Larkspur at No. 100.
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 thorughbred champions May 27, 2008
i thought it was a wonderful book with so much info about horses i love. everything was in this book . i would buy again from amazon.
 Secretariat is #1 May 27, 2008
Secretariat is #1. Period. This book's voting process was a "sham", as has been well documented. The majority of voters had Secretariat #1...but one voter intentionally voted Secretariat at #14 (unthinkable) to give MoW the top spot. Secretariat's dominates MoW in just about every possible category of projecting a hypothetical head-to-head matchup. Secretariat wouldn't have just beaten MoW at his best...he would have destroyed him. The fact that Secretariat still holds the record in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes...and held the unofficial (accurate) record in the Preakness is simply unbelievable. There is simply no "athlete" in any sport who has ever been so dominant. Watching Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes is the most perfect display in sports history (certainly horse racing).
William Nack (respected journalist, horse-racing guru, and member the of Bloodsport panel that voted) had this to say:
"Thanks for your generous words. It was very hard judging the Thoroughbred Champions: Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century,. I spent two days on the project. The final results were skewered when, I am told, one of the judges put Secretariat fourteenth on his top-100 list. I don't know who this particular voter was---individual voting has remained a secret on that panel---but it was an idiotic judgment that should have been dismissed out of hand. Had I known any voter would do such a thing, I'd have put Man o' War in fourteenth place just to counterbalance the loony. That would have leveled the playing field.
Here was a horse who had broken three track records in all three Triple Crown races, including the controversial Preakness clocking, two of which records (Derby and Belmont) still stand today; whose 31-length Belmont Stakes victory, in which he earned a Beyer of 137, is by consensus regarded as the greatest performance by a racehorse in history; and yet here was a voter who concocted a list suggesting that Secretariat would have finished last, behind 13 horses, in a field made up of that voter's first 14 horses on the list. It warped the voting and thereby tainted the list."
very helpful September 30, 2007
I thought this book was very helpful. I used it for a report that I had to do last week, and I got an A. Not only is it helpful, but also fun to read. The pictures are great!
Racing Industry Killed Its Brightest Star; Then Commits Suicide for Next 32 Years July 16, 2007
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What a joke--Ruffian ranked number 35! Whitely stated she was the best ever and he had Forgo in his stable. Laurin said she was greater than Secretariat. Remember the headlines she would beat Secretariat in head-to-head competition? I do. I also remember the industry hailing her as the greatest ever. Certainly one would have to go back to Eclipse to match her past performances. The whole industry hung their hopes of saving racing on her. And she brought legends of new fans to the track. Of course that was before the Great Match Race (one has to wonder what would have been so great about #35 vs #97). After that an industry embarassed by what its own greed had done reverted to making Ruffian the scapegoat for her own death as well as that of the industry. They also reverted to their old sexist ways. As a result they have been trying to destroy and belittle the legacy of this great horse (do you see her monument at KHP?). Sad thing is the racing industry never understood what brought her fans to the track. It had nothing to do with gambling (no one would get rich given her odds) but everything thing to do with a love of beauty and an appreciation of sheer perfection. Of course, no one expected the show of tremendous heart, courage and determination she exhibited in the match race. That made her immoral to her fans and proved an added embarassment to the industry. If ever the industry would give Ruffian her just due, they just might see her type of fans return to the tracks (and related sites such as KHP) in legend.
Interesting Debate Topic May 19, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A kindly rebuttal of the Secretariat bashing taking place by some reviewers. 16 victories in 21 career starts, record time in all three Triple Crown Races (his Preakness time was properly edited in 1999 representing the record). As for Hawkster who ran 1 1/2 mile in 2:22 2/5 on TURF in 1989 at Santa Anita on what the announcer described as an "unusually fast surface" (check YouTube), shows the adominable nature of 2:24 in the Belmont. No horse has come within 9 legnths of Secretariat's run in 73' on the dirt. I agree that Secretariat was not the greatest horse in racing history but on that day in 1973 at Belmont Park, he would have obliterated any other horse in the proud history of the sport of kings. Buy the book however and let the debate begin. We have been led to believe that the greatest horses travelled the dusty track in the 1970's, I believe this book challenges that assumption quite well.
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