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- In a poll conducted in 1988 by Racing
- Action, a weekly newspaper, to
- determine the greatest thoroughbreds of
- this century, Secretariat finished second
- behind a horse called Man OΓÇÖ War.
-
- Man OΓÇÖ War raced from 1919 to 1920. He
- never won the Triple Crown because his
- owner, Samuel Riddle, refused to enter
- him in the Kentucky Derby. The Derby is
- run in May, and Mr. Riddle felt it was too
- early in his 3-year-oldΓÇÖs racing life to ask
- him to run such a long race. Man OΓÇÖ War
- did win the Preakness and the Belmont
-