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Hillenbrand, a contributor to Equus magazine, profiles the major players in Seabiscuit's fantastic and improbable career (Publisher s Weekly). The horse seemed to transcend his physicality as he won race after race. Not an overtly impressive physical specimen his stubby legs were a study in unsound construction, with huge, squarish, asymmetrical `baseball glove' knees that didn't quite straighten all the way. Seabiscuit enjoyed great celebrity during the 1930s and 1940s, drawing record crowds to his races around the country. Gifted sportswriter Hillenbrand unearths the rarefied world of thoroughbred horse racing in this captivating account of one of the sport's legends. Two tone black and grey boards with silver lettering to spine. Hardback, VG in unclipped dustjacket, slightly sunned to edges of inside flaps.

JUST AS COMPELLING TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1938.Hardcover. shows an extraordinary talent for describing a horse race so vividly that the reader feels like the rider.” - Sports Illustrated

More than just a horse’s tale, because the humans who owned, trained, and rode Seabiscuit are equally fascinating. 12 Total Resources View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. A first-rate piece of storytelling, leaving us not only with a vivid portrait of a horse but a fascinating slice of American history as well.” - The New York Times Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:Ĭharles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

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