Authors: William Nack
Secretariat (46 page)
I want to thank
Newsday
, especially editor David Laventhol and sports editor Richard Sandler, whose support and understanding, deadline after deadline, were most deeply appreciated; my friend Mike McGrady, who encouraged me throughout the life of this project, from the day he introduced me to publisher Arthur Fields to the day he read and helped edit the final manuscript; and, finally, Arthur Fields.
I also want to thank Sam Kanchuger, the most helpful and well-organized racing publicist in America, whose copious and instructive files were invaluable; the publisher of
The Thoroughbred Record,
Arnold Kirkpatrick; Bob Van Wert and Jim Bolus of the
Louisville Courier-Journal,
for their help on my research into the 1973 Kentucky Derby; typist Virginia Chepak; former
Newsday
reporter Mike Quinn, for his research; racing writer Steve Cady and columnists Red Smith and Dave Anderson, all of the
New York Times,
for their support; Amelia Buckley of the Keeneland Library Association; writer Harvey Aronson and designer Corrine McGrady, for their patience; and my parents, for a $600 loan tendered when the ladle was scraping the bottom of the soup bowl.
WILLIAM NACK is also the author of
My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money
, and the
Sporting Life
and Ruffian: A Racetrack Romance. As a writer at
Sports Illustrated
, he won six Eclipse Awards for his coverage of thoroughbred racing. Nack also has contributed to
GQ
, where he won a seventh Eclipse Award. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Secretariat
was originally published in 1975 with the title
Big Red of Meadow Stable
by Arthur Fields Books. And it was also published in 2002 with the title
Secretariat: The Making of a Champion
by Da Capo Press. Reprinted by arrangement with the author.
Copyright © 1975 William Nack
New Preface © 2010 William Nack
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