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As Seabiscuit showed his old surge, Wedding Call and Whichcee faltered, and Pollard drove his horse on, taking the Hundred Grander by a length and a half from the fast-closing Kayak II.
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After trying three, he settled on George Woolf, an already successful rider and old friend of Pollard, to ride Seabiscuit.
Seabiscuit and Wedding
As they thundered down the back straight, Seabiscuit became trapped in third place, behind leader Whichcee and Wedding Call on the outside.
Seabiscuit and Pollard
Improvements came quickly and, in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including Detroit's Governor's Handicap ( worth $ 5, 600 ) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($ 7, 300 ) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.
Following advice he had received from Pollard, Woolf had eased up on Seabiscuit, allowing his horse to see his rival, and then asked for more effort.
Pollard, still convalescing, and Seabiscuit recovered together at Howard's ranch, with Pollard's new wife Agnes, who had nursed him through his initial recovery.
Howard was delighted at their improvement, as he longed for Seabiscuit to race again, but was extremely worried about Pollard, as his leg was still fragile.
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Seabiscuit and horse
* 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed " the match of the century " in horse racing.
A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Fitzsimmons saw some potential in Seabiscuit, but felt the horse was too lazy.
Seabiscuit was drawn on the outside, and from the start, was impeded by another horse, Count Atlas, angling out.
Smith knew these things, and had been secretly training Seabiscuit to run against this type, using a starting bell and a whip to give the horse a Pavlovian burst of speed from the start.
With Seabiscuit out of action, Smith and Howard concentrated on their horse Kayak II, an Argentine stallion.
When he was retired to the Ridgewood Ranch near Willits, California, Seabiscuit was horse racing's all-time leading money winner.
He is linked forever to the year-older Seabiscuit, who was a famous Grandson of the Man o ' War stallion, son of Hard Tack and was the preeminent horse based in the western US.
* George Woolf ( 1910 – 1946 ), Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey in US ; rode Seabiscuit
Her father-in-law owned and raced Seabiscuit, and with her husband she became a successful horse owner / breeder.
Her 1998 American Heritage article on the horse Seabiscuit won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing.
Later that same year he called the famous Seabiscuit / War Admiral match race, including this phrase in the final stretch run, as Seabiscuit shocked the horse racing world by outrunning the heavily-favored War Admiral:
Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand published in 2001 about the thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit.
He lost a son to a car accident in 1926 at an early age and later bought the soon-to-be-famous horse Seabiscuit.
Seabiscuit and on
Seabiscuit was foaled on May 23, 1933, from the mare Swing On and sired by Hard Tack, a son of Man o ' War.
George Woolf on Seabiscuit
Sent to race on the East Coast of the United States, on October 16, 1938, Seabiscuit ran second by two lengths in the Laurel Stakes to the filly Jacola who set a new Laurel Park Racecourse record of 1: 37. 00 for one mile.
Seabiscuit, on the other hand, was a pace stalker, skilled at holding with the pack before pulling ahead with late acceleration.
At Santa Anita Park, a life-sized bronze statue of Seabiscuit, hand-tooled by Frank Buchler, has been on display since 1941-it now stands in the walking ring at the track's " Seabiscuit Court.
War Admiral and Seabiscuit competed only once on November 1, 1938, in the Pimlico Special match race.
The racetrack sequences in the Marx Brothers 1937 classic A Day at the Races were filmed there, and The Story of Seabiscuit with Shirley Temple was filmed on location in 1949.
The track is also noted as the home for the match race in which Seabiscuit beat War Admiral in the second Pimlico Special, on November 1, 1938, before a crowd of 43, 000.
Woolf, who had previously won the Pimlico Special in 1938 on Seabiscuit and in 1940 on Challedon, rode the 1941 Triple Crown winner at a leisurely pace during the 1942 Pimlico Special in a walkover victory.
George Woolf on Seabiscuit
*" George Woolf / Seabiscuit memorial statue unveiling-July 17, 2010 ", What's new at the Museum ?, see Woolf / Seabiscuit statue on this page, Remington Carriage Museum
Retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, Hard Tack went on to sire the great racer Seabiscuit.
According to Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Seabiscuit, Howard's early Buick dealership in San Francisco was given a boost by the hand of fate ; on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of the few individuals who had operational vehicles in the city, and was thus able to help the rescue effort significantly.
George Woolf on Seabiscuit
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Additional scores by Newman include Avalon, Parenthood, James and the Giant Peach, Seabiscuit, Awakenings, The Paper, Meet the Parents, and its sequel, Meet the Fockers.
Seabiscuit was the subject of a 1949 film, The Story of Seabiscuit ; a 2001 book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand ; and a 2003 film, Seabiscuit, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Seabiscuit was named for his father, as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors.
Despite starting badly and carrying the top weight of 116 lb ( 53 kg ), Seabiscuit won by five lengths.
The pair battled hard, but were beaten in a photo finish by the fast finishing Santa Anita Derby winner, Stagehand ( owned by Maxwell Howard, not related to Charles ), who had been assigned 30 pounds ( 13. 6 kg ) fewer than Seabiscuit.
Throughout 1937 and 1938, the media speculated about a match race between Seabiscuit and the seemingly invincible War Admiral ( also sired by Man o ' War, Seabiscuit's grandsire ).
Two hundred yards from the wire, Seabiscuit pulled away again and continued to extend his lead over the closing stretch, finally winning by four clear lengths despite War Admiral's running his best time for the distance.
As a result of his races that year and the victory over War Admiral, Seabiscuit was named American Horse of the Year for 1938, beating War Admiral by 698 points to 489 in a poll conducted by the Turf and Sport Digest magazine.
Compared to his previous races, it was an unremarkable performance for the stallion ( Seabiscuit was third, bested by two lengths ), but it was an amazing comeback for him and his jockey.
By their third comeback race, Seabiscuit was back to his winning ways, running away from the field in the San Antonio Handicap to beat his erstwhile training partner, Kayak II, by two and a half lengths.
Burdened by only 124 pounds ( 56 kg ), Seabiscuit equalled the track record for a mile and 1 / 16.
In 1940, right after the spectacular Santa Anita win and at the moment of the horse's retirement, track writer B. K. Beckwith wrote Seabiscuit: The Saga of a Great Champion, with a foreword by Grantland Rice.
In 1963, Ralph Moody wrote Come On Seabiscuit ( ISBN 0-8032-8287-7 ), illustrated by Robert Riger, and recently returned to print by the University of Nebraska Press.
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