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**The true story of a forgotten champion: "Bringing Sir Barton out from the shadows, Jennifer Kelly restores him to a richly-deserved spotlight." ―Dorothy Ours, author of __Man o' War__** He was always destined to be a champion. Royally bred, with English and American classic winners in his pedigree, Sir Barton shone from birth, dubbed the "king of them all." But after a winless two-year-old season and a near-fatal illness, uncertainty clouded the start of Sir Barton's three-year-old season. Then his surprise victory in America's signature race, the Kentucky Derby, started him on the road to history, where he would go on to dominate the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, completing America's first Triple Crown. His wins inspired the ultimate chase for greatness in American horse racing and established an elite group that would grow to include legends like Citation, Secretariat, and American Pharoah. After a series of dynamic wins in 1920, popular opinion tapped Sir Barton as the best challenger for the wonder horse Man o' War, and demanded a match race to settle once and for all which horse was the greatest. That duel would cement the reputation of one horse for all time and diminis

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Author

Jennifer S Kelly; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813177182

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Fiction, Nature

Rating

4.8 / 5 (89 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14