Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popularattractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker inthe world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, orMussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racingestablishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorsewith the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes: Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced theautomobile to the western United States and became an overnightmillionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, hehired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Coloradoplains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basementprice, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who wasblind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages fromRalph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partnerssurvived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severeinjury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologicallyindolent also-ran into an American sports icon. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universalunderdog story, one that proves life is a horse race. From the Hardcover edition.
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