Full name: Secretariat: The Making of a Champion

Author: William Nack Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Animals, Sports, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781401324018 1401324010

In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest thoroughbred in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. The only horse to ever break the two-minute mark in winning the Kentucky Derby until recent winner Monarchos, Secretariat also pulled off one of the most astounding victories in the annals of horse racing by winning the Belmont Stakes by a record-breaking thirty-one lengths. Now William Nack updates his acclaimed portrait with a new afterword that examines the legacy of one of ESPN's "100 Greatest Athletes of the Century": the only horse to ever grace the covers of Time , Newsweek , and Sports Illustrated all in the same week. Similar books: The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger The Legends Club by John Feinstein Slaying the Badger by Richard Moore The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb King of the World by David Remnick When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird Man o' War by Dorothy Ours Beautiful Jim Key by Mim Eichler Rivas The Horse God Built by Lawrence Scanlan The Fight by Norman Mailer 56 by Kostya Kennedy Mr. Hornaday's War by Stefan Bechtel Dog Man by Martha Sherrill Jumbo by Paul Chambers Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward The Greatest by Walter Dean Myers Elephant Company by Vicki Croke Sgt. Reckless by Robin Hutton