Just before starting college, in the summer of 1959, Nack told his parents he wanted to forgo education in order to join the racing outfit. “The last time I heard Bill tell this story was at a dinner in 2016.” “Swaps walked over to the rail, lowered his head and licked the back of Bill’s hand,” Layden wrote. In a Sports Illustrated story, Tim Layden recounted Nack telling his favorite story of Swaps. It was the 1955 Kentucky Derby that introduced Nacks to his first favorite horse, Swaps. Growing up in Skokie, Illinois, Nack spent his time cleaning horse stalls. Nack is most known for his book-turned-film Secretariat about the 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat.
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