Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
The Blood -Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century is an often quoted and widely recognized list of the best and most successful racehorses of the 20th century, the United States, the Millennium of the U.S. journal The Blood -Horse was issued. The compilation was done by secret ballot by seven distinguished in the subject matter experts: Howard Battle, Lenny Hale, Jay Hovdey, William Nack, Pete Pedersen, Jennie Rees and Tommy Trotter. Extended by the biographies of individual horses appeared the list as a book.
Immediately after the publication criticized Nack - editor at Sports Illustrated and author of a Secretariat biography - but against the newspaper the Daily News the electoral process, as a person from the Panel Secretariat looked only at position 14, what the horse cost the top ranking in the final result. Nacks comment: