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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.
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Seabiscuit and was
Seabiscuit ( May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States.
Seabiscuit was foaled on May 23, 1933, from the mare Swing On and sired by Hard Tack, a son of Man o ' War.
Seabiscuit was named for his father, as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors.
Fitzsimmons saw some potential in Seabiscuit, but felt the horse was too lazy.
Seabiscuit was relegated to a punishing schedule of smaller races.
While Seabiscuit had not lived up to his racing potential, he was not the poor performer that Fitzsimmons had taken him for.
Seabiscuit was rapidly becoming a favorite among California racing fans, and his fame spread as he won his next three races.
His streak was snapped, but the season was not over ; Seabiscuit won his next three races ( one a dead heat ) before finishing the year with a second place at Pimlico.
In 1937, Seabiscuit won eleven of his fifteen races and was the year's leading money winner in the United States.
Woolf's first race was the Santa Anita Handicap, the " hundred grander " that Seabiscuit had narrowly lost the previous year.
Seabiscuit was drawn on the outside, and from the start, was impeded by another horse, Count Atlas, angling out.
After extensive negotiation, the owners organized a match race for May 1938 at Belmont, but Seabiscuit was scratched.
On November 1, 1938, Seabiscuit met War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger in what was dubbed the " Match of the Century.
Seabiscuit, on the other hand, was a pace stalker, skilled at holding with the pack before pulling ahead with late acceleration.
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.
Seabiscuit and 1949
* The Story of Seabiscuit ( 1949 )
In 1949, a fictionalized account was made into the motion picture The Story of Seabiscuit, starring Shirley Temple.
* The Story of Seabiscuit Hollywood film, 1949
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 Story of Seabiscuit ( 1949 )
Seabiscuit and film
His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog.
* Seabiscuit PBS film.
* Seabiscuit Hollywood film, 2003
The 2003 feature film Seabiscuit features the race between the two horses Seabiscuit and War Admiral.
It was made into the Academy Award nominated film Seabiscuit ( 2003 ).
Sam Riddle regained some notoriety in recent years because of his mention in the popular film and book Seabiscuit.
* In the film, Seabiscuit ( 2003 ), Woolf was portrayed by the jockey Gary Stevens, who has also been inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In 2003, McCarron served as a technical advisor, racing designer and actor in the 2003 film Seabiscuit.
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Seabiscuit and Story
In March 2004, actor Gary Sinise ( Forrest Gump, Apollo 13 ) and author Laura Hillenbrand ( Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Seabiscuit: An American Legend ) announced the launch of Operation Iraqi Children, a program that will enable Americans to send School Supply Kits to Iraqi children.
The University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, and Western Kentucky University bands play the song at their schools ' football and basketball games, and the song has been heard in many films including The Little Colonel ; Gone With the Wind ; The Story of Seabiscuit ; The Human Comedy ; and the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit.
He appeared with Edward G. Robinson in 1947's The Red House and in the same year with Shirley Temple in The Story of Seabiscuit.
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In his second race of 1937, the San Antonio Handicap, he suffered a setback ; bumped at the start and then pushed wide, Seabiscuit came in fifth, losing to Rosemont.
Seabiscuit ; The Saga of a Great Champion by Howard Brodie ( 1940 ) W. Crowell, Inc.
* George Woolf ( 1910 – 1946 ), Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey in US ; rode Seabiscuit
There is also a lifesize bronze of Seabiscuit in the walking ring at Seabiscuit Court ; a similar bronze of John Henry was unveiled near the Seabiscuit statue in December 2009.
The latest was Invasor in 2006 ; others include Mineshaft, Lemon Drop Kid, Real Quiet, Skip Away, Blushing John, Tom Fool, Coaltown, Citation, Assault, Stymie, Armed, Twilight Tear, Devil Diver, Whirlaway, Challedon, Kayak II, Seabiscuit and War Admiral.
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.
Seabiscuit and 2001
In 2001, Laura Hillenbrand wrote Seabiscuit: An American Legend ( ISBN 0-449-00561-5 ).
* Hillenbrand, Laura ( 2001 ), " Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, ( 2001 ), Random House ISBN 978-0-375-50291-0
Hillenbrand's first book was the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend ( 2001 ), a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand published in 2001 about the thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit.
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