Late in his career, esteemed turf writer John Hervey mused over the greatest horses he’d seen. His life bridged the 19th and 20th centuries, and he had watched Man o’ War run, which seems like a natural choice for the top spot, but he reached back further and claimed that the greatest of all was a horse called Salvator.
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Isaac Murphy
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The horse was certainly impressive: Salvator held the speed record for a mile for decades. He won 16 of his 19 starts. (Those early losses were his first trips to the gate; it seems as if it took him a second to figure racing out.) In the summer of 1890, 18 horses were entered in the Monmouth Cup, but not one of them showed up to race against him. It must have been something to see Salvator jog around the track—an easy bit of work for the $1,800 prize.
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