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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Seabiscuit An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 65fceaf74e3d2c0d • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Seabiscuit (film) Seabiscuit is a 2003 film based on the novel Seabiscuit: An American Legend . The true story recounts the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked thoroughbred race horse whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular sensation in the United States near the end of the Great Depression. Directed by Gary Ross. Based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand. Screenplay by Gary Ross. Contents. Red Pollard [ edit ] You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too. Tom Smith [ edit ] Every horse is good for somethin'. You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause he's banged up a little bit. Charles Howard [ edit ] [joking to crowd gathered at a whistle-stop] Our horse is too small. Our jockey's too big. Our trainer's too old. And I'm too dumb to know the difference. Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack up and go home or keep fighting. Narrator [ edit ] The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at five in the morning. Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him, as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at? Who do you think you are?" He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye. For the first time in a long time someone cared. For the first time in a long time you are not Alone. Dialogue [ edit ] [after losing a photo finish horse race] Red : It's not my fault. Not this time. Tom Smith : I told you, look out for Rosemont! Red : I thought I had it! Tom Smith : You stopped ridin' him! Red : I couldn't see him! Tom Smith : What the hell are you talking about? He was flyin' up your tail! Red : Yeah, well, I can't. Tom Smith : What? Red : . SEE out there! [after losing the first race horse race, he threw Red in the stall] Dutch Doogan : A nose?! You lose a race a nose, you'd better fall off tryin'! Here! [Dutch Doogan threw the pitch fork at the hay] Dutch Doogan : Much these stalls down, every damn one of em!! A nose! For Christ's sake! [walks away] Seabiscuit: An American Legend Summary. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by R A Williams, Grace Morones, Gerald Macfarlin. The book tells the story of Seabiscuit, possibly the most famous American racehorse of all time, with special emphasis on the human beings who discovered him, trained him, and risked both their lives and their money on him. Seabiscuit captured the nation's imagination at the height of the Great Depression. A classic underdog, the little horse with a big heart came back from what could have been a career ending injury to win the Santa Anita Handicap race in 1940. In an age when horses were becoming obsolete for travel and farming due to the popularity of automobiles, Seabiscuit and other equine athletes helped ensure that horse racing remained relevant as a sport. The book begins by discussing Seabiscuit's owner, Charles Howard, a self-made multimillionaire who came to California in 1903 with a dream and a pocketful of change. He began by opening a bicycle repair store, recognized the potential of the new automobile technology, and acquired a Buick franchise. His automobiles were not widely accepted until the 1906 earthquake, when they became the only viable ambulances. Not long afterwards, Ron Howard became a very wealthy man. Tall, photogenic, and well aware of the importance of image, Ron Howard never completely recovered from the accidental death of his son, Frankie. His marriage collapsed not long afterwards. But after he married his second wife, Marcela, Howard took a renewed interest in horse racing. He and Marcela opened a stable in 1935 and bought Seabiscuit in 1936. Seabiscuit's trainer, Tom Smith, was an old cowboy with an intuitive understanding of horse psychology. His unorthodox training techniques helped cure Seabiscuit of several of his bad habits, including stubbornness and laziness. Seabiscuit's primary rider, John "Red" Pollard, was born in Edmonton, Alberta. A lover of classic literature and a man of many talents, Pollard lost most of the sight in one eye possibly as a result of an injury during his short boxing career. Plagued by injuries to his shoulder and his leg, Pollard's also struggled with alcohol. Seabiscuit himself was born in late May 1933, so he was half a year younger than most of the racehorses in his age group. Racing against horses in low-stakes claiming races, he occasionally showed the speed associated with his sire, Hard Tack, but the constant racing and hard that kept him in shape also burned him out psychologically. Tom Smith raced Seabiscuit selectively, avoiding the spotlight so as to keep Seabiscuit's handicap weight low. In February 1937 Seabiscuit lost the Santa Anita Handicap race by a nose, due most likely to jockey error because Pollard did not see another horse approaching on his blind side. After the Santa Anita loss, Seabiscuit won seven consecutive stakes races including the Butler Handicap and the Massachusetts Handicap despite carrying more weight than any other horse on the track due to the impost weight handicap intended to even out the racing field. However, Howard would not allow Seabiscuit to risk injury by carrying too much weight. Likewise, Seabiscuit had difficulty running in mud or wet weather. The book covers Seabiscuit's second photo defeat at the 1938 Santa Anita Handicap, his somewhat controversial stakes race against Ligaroti, and his history-making defeat of War Admiral at Pimlico in 1938. It discusses the repeated rumors of a leg injury that dogged Seabiscuit through his career, and also the very real minor injury at Belmont and the rupture of his suspensory ligament in early 1939. The third section of the book covers the dual comeback of Ron Pollard, whose leg was crippled in a racing accident, and Seabiscuit. The two finally won the Santa Anita Handicap race in 1940. After winning the Santa Anita Handicap, Pollard continued as Howard's stable agent. He tried working as a trainer but ultimately returned to riding as long as he was physically able. Seabiscuit was put out to stud but died of an apparent heart attack at age fourteen. Update this section! You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this section. After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. An editor will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. ISBN 13: 9780345465085. 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 Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race. From the Hardcover edition. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend . Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that "the day of the horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a man who "had cultivated an almost mystical communication with horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube.

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