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Why was Man o' War important in the 1920's?

I have to answer this question for an english presentation. I know he was a great race horse but I don't understand why he was important.

Public Comments

1. He won the Triple Crown and then became a stud. Great job if you can run fast enough. His offspring later became great horses and sold for a lot of money.
2. HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST RACEHORSES OF ALL TIME AT A TIME WHEN RACING WAS SURGING IN IT'S POPULARITY. HE HAD A FABLED RACE AGAINST A HORSE CALLED SEA BISCUIT. THERE WAS A MOVIE ABOUT IT CALLED SEA BISCUIT. IT WAS ONE ON ONE/////// WEST COAST VS EAST COAST. YOU SHOULD SEE THE MOVIE OR READ ABOUT IT. I COULD TELL YOU MORE BUT I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE SURPRISE.
3. Man o'War never won the Triple Crown because his owner never entered him in the Kentucky Derby. However, out of twenty-one races entered he won twenty, or about 95% of all the races he was entered in. This includes two of the jewels in the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness Stakes. He only lost the Sanford Memorial Stakes. And on October 12, 1920 he beat the first ever Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton who won the crown in 1919. For a horse to when 95% of the races it's entered in that makes the horse a very valuable commodity. Put out to stud he produced champion stock. His descendants include War Admiral, his son who did what he wasn't allowed to do (win the Triple), and his grandson Seabiscuit. These are perhaps to two best known descendants of Man o'War, having gone up against each other in November of 1938 in the race dupped the "Match of the Century" (War Admiral had just won the Triple Crown the previous year), Seabiscuit beat his uncle in the race.