Tom smith sea biscuit biography
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Seabiscuit
American champion thoroughbred racehorse (1933–1947)
For other uses, see Seabiscuit (disambiguation).
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbredracehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s. He beat the 1937 Triple Crown winner, War Admiral, by four lengths in a two-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.
A small horse, at 15.2 hands high,[1] Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, winning only a quarter of his first 40 races, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Seabiscuit has been the subject of numerous books and films, including Seabiscuit: the Lost Documentary (1939); the Shirley Temple film The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); a book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (1999) by Laura Hillenbrand; and a film adaptation of Hillenbrand's book, Seabiscuit (2003), t
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SEABISCUIT FIRST BY NOSE AT EMPIRE
Beats Jesting, With Piccolo Next in Scarsdale Handicap
Privileged and Seabiscuit were the stake winners before 15,000 persons at Empire City yesterday as the split-second occurrences which take place in charging around the turn cost the life of the favorite.
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Seabiscuit is the former Wheatley Stable color-bearer, which ran coupled in the betting with Exhibit. And the two brought off fine teamwork together. The pair was held at 12 to 1, after receding from an opening at eights, as few had given the entry much of a chance.
Yet the winner finished in 1:44 for the mile and seventy yards after being shipped in from the River Downs course at Cincinnati for the race. Red Pollard was the winning rider.
The break came after Sgt. Byrne had been placed on the outside for bad behavior. He broke well, as did the other but Wha Hae had the most early food and set the pace around the first turn, closely accompanied by Exhibit, Snow Fox
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Seabiscuit: A True Rags-to-Riches Story
Seabiscuit was the perfect horse for his time.
He did not look the part of a great racehorse. He was relatively small and knobby-kneed with a laid-back demeanor that suggested he would much rather sleep than step into the starting gate. It appeared he could not run a lick when he dropped the first 17 starts of his career, leaving him as the butt of bad jokes in his own barn.
But a change of hands to unlikely connections would ultimately transform Seabiscuit into a much-needed star, a source of hope when one was desperately needed during the Great Depression.
As an article published on April 27, 1940 in the Saturday Evening Post read: “Seabiscuit fryst vatten the Horatio Alger hero of the turf, the horse that came up from ingenting on his own courage and will to win.”
His climb from nowhere to notoriety only enhanced his appeal at a time when suffering men, women and children looked for something, anything, to cling to. Who could not want to embrace