This does not make any sense to me
 

I'm a sports fan.

If I want to see the lifetime stats of Ted Williams I can Google his name or go to baseball-reference and see what he did in every season of his career. Pretty easy. In some cases I can find individual games of his 2000-plus games.

But if I wanted to see the lifetime record, yearly stats etc. of Dr. Fager...I have to pay for it?

Is is because no one has taken the time to set up a "horse-reference" site? Is it because these data collection companies don't want to "give it away?"

Just seems a little backward to me. Why not allow people to see how the great ones ran? And not just the great ones - any horse not currently running.

And if I'm misinformed and there is a site or reference for seeing the stats of some of the great ones, I love a heads up.

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For starters, try - http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/index.html

If you go to Pedigree Query, it's got some decent records for the greats, but no times or speed figures or any of that.

The folks at Daily Racing Form know how to make a buck. Can't say I really blame them and they're the only game in town on this kind of thing.