I started the club back in May 21, 1999. I made it because I am the only person in my family and among my friends that follows horse racing. Even in the neighborhood I live in, if a person mentions the sport of horse racing the first thing out of everyone's mouth is Secretariat. They don't know of any other race horse but him. If you mention Barbaro, Seattle Slew, Man o' War or any other they may not know who you are talking about. For the movie "Seabiscuit" I seriously doubt anyone here knows that the movie was based off a book about a REAL horse. Much less knows that the race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral are between 2 horses who really are blood related to each other. Seabiscuit's grand-sire was Man O' War himself, and Man O' War is the direct sire of War Admiral. So in human terms Seabiscuit and War Admiral are nephew/uncle.
I originally created this board to talk about Man O' War in general. I read about him and was convinced that in my own opinion he was 100% better than Secretariat, but had no one to talk to about him. So the original reason I made this board was to just talk about Man O' War. As time went on it moved to talking about if there were any horses today with Man O' War in their pedigree. Then it moved from that to if any of those horses were racing today, and if so who?? Then from there we started talking horse racing in general. On this board I learned a lot about the sport of horse racing. Also I enjoy talking to people with different opinions about Man O' War, horse racing, or whatever comes up. The people on this board spans the ages, I've known kids still in elementary school come on this board, I've even known senior citizens come on this board. So we get a huge mix of people, and I like that. It give the people on this board a wide range and mix of views.
