For more than 50 years Man o' War owned the unofficial title of Horse of the Century. Forty years after that spring of 1973, when Secretariat ran roughshod over the competition, the debate rages on.
Man o'War: The greatest horse of the 20th century (according to The Blood-Horse magazine) won seven races at Belmont, including the 1920 Belmont Stakes, where just one opponent showed up to challenge ...