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Secretariat, Updated Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Raymond G. Woolfe
Publisher: The Derrydale Press
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 120082
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Updated
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11 x 10.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1586670670
Dewey Decimal Number: 798.4
EAN: 9781586670672
ASIN: 1586670670
Publication Date: June 25, 2001
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Product Description
Based on interviews, race histories and Woolfe's writings, Secretariat is a behind the scenes look at the famous horse.
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Great book about Big Red July 9, 2008
I was quite pleased with this book, especially the expanded edition, which includes information about his offspring. I wish it had more photos, but the photos that are there are choice. Wolfe did his research. And interesting read and a must have if you're a fan of Secretariat.
This book is great! January 12, 2008
This book is great and chock full of beautiful, rich, and colorful photos; Secretariat almost looks real in some of them. It has just as much accurate information as Bill Nack's "The Making of a Champion," but doesn't go into the tedious detail of related bloodlines and the syndicate deal made for Secretariat. I found this book to be better than Nack's because of that, the pacing, and the gorgeous photos.
Secretariat Book a Runaway Winner December 23, 2007
This book is a beautiful book, with great photos to supplement the text. It will be of interest to all.
photos October 9, 2007
I bought this book as a Secretariat and general thoroughbred racing fan. I discovered it in a book store in St. Petersburg, FL a couple of years ago, and just recently purchased it for my very own through Amazon. At that time, I remember seeing it on the shelf and with wide-eyes, removing it to sit on the floor cross-legged and look at the beautiful array of photographs. I couldn't believe that a coffee table book had been put together about my favorite champion.
And that's still how I feel. If one is looking for photos and photos and more photos of this red legend, this book is the one to own. I am just now getting around to the text, as I have read two Secretariat biographies already, but that is also well written and captures major and interesting details about this horse's life.
Thank you Raymond G. Woolfe Jr. for composing a book that is worthy of our 1973 hero.
He wasn't just another great horse September 10, 2007
On Oct. 4, 1989 the evening news shows carried the story that Secretariat had been euthanized. I cried my heart out. Called in sick to work the next day. My personal hero had left us. The current generation of Barbaro-worshippers can't understand what it was like to watch The Red run. You knew you were watching history unfold, as much as when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. Secretariat lifted up an entire nation, kissed it and put it back down. We were sick of Vietnam, sick of Watergate, sick of being the trashcan the world kicks down the street. Secretariat, the most magnificent assemblage of bone, muscle, brain and heart walked out in front of us and said, "watch me." Simple and to the point. Bred in America. Homegrown and hardworking. And setting the gold standard for perfection. This book simply reminds everyone how he was and how he made us feel. Nearly 20 years later I still cry my heart out on October 4th. But I look at his photos and read the stories about him and I am grateful to have been a witness to something that defies description.
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