Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (Da Capo Paperback) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (Da Capo Paperback) Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• "Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand." --Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit . 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 last year's 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," and the only horse to ever grace the covers of Time , Newsweek , and Sports Illustrated all in the same week.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (Da Capo Paperback) Wednesday, July 29 2009.

• Added a contributor: William Nack: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (Da Capo Paperback) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• It was almost midnight in Virginia, late for the farmlands north of Richmond, when the breathing quickened in the stall, the phone rang in the Gentry home, and two men came out the front door, hastily crossing the lawn to the car.