OK, now I KNOW ESPN has been hiding something from the public!
I watched the Citation show on ESPN Classic tonite (part of it). They of course made the comparison to Man O'War - and during the mention showed a FILM of him held on the track. This film was the SAME point in time as 1 of the most standard photos of him. The photo where he is held by someone (groom? assistant?) and in SOME versions this person is brushed out of the photo (yet the shadow remains - look for it) as if Man were alone w/his jockey. This latter I've seen w/the write-ups on it identifying him and some of his best races.
I also saw the Top 100 Secretariat show (just a half-hour) from the ESPN productions, and some other show from ESPN that seemed to focus on racing (don't know what it was, could only see 5 min of it). Each of these showed some clip that either obviously was MOW or was implied as such (1 w/"him" and another running "the wrong way" on a homestretch, like a finish-line view).
What is going on? The common wisdom was that only a Sir Barton film existed of MOW. Yet ESPN keeps pulling them out of a hat - AND they're in better condition. They look practically shot yesterday. I think if they have this stuff, they should be making a MOW show even just of the film clips, so we can buy it!
