Talk:William Nack

Blood-Horse magazine controversy
I moved this quote here, because there is an IP user, who wants to use this quote as a justification for changing the article Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century or at least use this quote. This quote here is hardly from a verifiable source. I cannot tell who the author is that is quoting Mr. Nack. Can someone help confirm that he actually said this? --imars (talk) 06:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Asked why Man O' War was voted ahead of Secretariat for Horse of the Century, Nack said: "I spent two days on the project. The final results were skewered when, I am told, one of the judges put Secretariat fourteenth on his top-100 list. I don't know who this particular voter was---individual voting has remained a secret on that panel---but it was an idiotic judgment that should have been dismissed out of hand. Had I known any voter would do such a thing, I'd have put Man o' War in fourteenth place just to counterbalance the loony. That would have leveled the playing field. Here was a horse who had broken three track records in all three Triple Crown races, including the controversial Preakness clocking, two of which records (Derby and Belmont) still stand today; whose 31-length Belmont Stakes victory, in which he earned a Beyer of 137, is by consensus regarded as the greatest performance by a racehorse in history; and yet here was a voter who concocted a list suggesting that Secretariat would have finished last, behind 13 horses, in a field made up of that voter's first 14 horses on the list. It warped the voting and thereby tainted the list."

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