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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3011614, member: 289"] Here are a series of U-Tube posts on Man O’ War and the Triple Crown winners: Sir Barton: [MEDIA=youtube]eRTbXCCn8h8[/MEDIA] There was no triple crown yet: in fact all three races were run within a week! Man O’ War [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axyKdW1eahw"]Man O War[/URL] When I was growing up, his name was said with such reverence that I knew, even as a kid that it was Man O’ War and then everyone else. Man O’ War beats Sir Barton: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC86Jm5oiMc&feature=related[/URL] Gallant Fox: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvXXNoyIYRQ[/URL] The first triple crown winner recognized as such, (the term was coined in 1923). The Preakness was the first of the three races in those days. Omaha: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinMwpXmpjQ[/URL] Peyton Manning’s favorite TC winner. War Admiral: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCUUTk6vT4&feature=related[/URL] The one Seabiscuit beat. He was a son of Man O’War. Whirlaway: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-5TR0m5N8[/URL] The most-high-strung TC winner. Count Fleet [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoUMUrUO9rE&NR=1[/URL] He won like Secretariat during the war Assault: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caO_WEMPkAA[/URL] Has there ever been a name for a racehorse? Citation: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxDSsqy02XY&feature=related[/URL] All through my youth, Citation was the last triple crown winner: would there ever be another? Secretariat [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5hAkgZqtI&feature=related[/URL] There’s never been a horse that could have beaten him that day in the Belmont. Seattle Slew: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdKtmsXnVlc&feature=related[/URL] His jockey said “it was like flying an airplane” Affirmed: [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DidbmwH5U&feature=related[/URL] Maybe I should have included Alydar in the Dream Race American Pharoah: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9vnsLKp9k[/URL] After 37 years, it seemed like when Mark McGwire hit #62 to break Roger Maris’ record, also after 37 years. Justify: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HdSvguh-Xw[/URL] Those first two races were very wet tracks. In 1999, a poll was conducted to determine the top 100 thoroughbred race horses of the 20th century and it was won not by Secretariat, but by Man O’ War: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-Horse_magazine_List_of_Top_100_Racehorses_of_the_20th_Century[/URL] Here is a comparison between the two great horses favoring Secretariat: [URL]http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/nutbush/[/URL] Here is a site with some links about the two horses: [URL]http://www.horse-races.net/library/poll-mowsec.shtml[/URL] Here’s an analysis based on “stride angle” using photos: [URL]http://www.somaxsports.com/SecretariatSA.html[/URL] Here you can vote on who was the best: [URL]http://ezinearticles.com/?Horse-Racing-Results---Man-o-War-Vs-Secretariat&id=768663[/URL] This article compares them as studs: [URL]http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/hippology/xfactor.html[/URL] Now that’s how to retire- just prance around the yard while they bring beautiful women to mate with you. A diet of grass and oats might get old, though. [/QUOTE]

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