Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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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. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit's fortunes:Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. 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. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform... Business Week - Mark Hyman Hillenbrand, a contributing writer at Equus magazine, is a deft storyteller whose descriptions of such races are especially good, filled with images of pounding hooves and splattering mud.
Preface11Part I1.The Day of the Horse Is Past172.The Lone Plainsman413.Mean, Restive, and Ragged584.The Cougar and the Iceman835.A Boot on One Foot, a Toe Tag on the Other1066.Light and Shadow131Part II7.Learn Your Horse1538.Fifteen Strides1729.Gravity19210.War Admiral21211.No Pollard, No Seabiscuit23312.All I Need Is Luck25813.Hardball27714.The Wise We Boys29815.Fortune's Fool32316.I Know My Horse33817.The Dingbustingest Contest You Ever Clapped an Eye On35118.Deal36619.The Second Civil War384Part III20."All Four of His Legs Are Broken"40721.A Long, Hard Pull42522.Four Good Legs Between Us43423.One Hundred Grand452Epilogue467Acknowledgments484Notes497
