“Once a horse gives Seabiscuit the old look-in-the-eye,” Red Pollard, sidelined by an injury, had told Woolf the night before the race, “he begins to run to parts unknown.” That’s just ...

Seabiscuit remains the best movie ever made about the world of horse racing. The Best Picture nominee featured the legendary racing horse's comeback story and boasted an impressive cast that ...

Seabiscuit’s first local race was the Bay Bridge Handicap at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, on Nov. 28, 1936. The cast-off horse wasn’t favored. But as 12,000 cheering spectators watched ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The “Race of the Century.” Nowadays, sports fans would call it an “Instant Classic.” On Nov. 1, 1938, in a ...

Another common trait between Tom, Seabiscuit and Red is that they have been called crazy by those in traditional horse racing circles. Against the odds, Seabiscuit, with his human team behind him ...

However, as a historian my attention also reverts to horse racing history, especially when there is a Rhode Island connection. In the year of my birth, 1938, Seabiscuit, an undersized and ...

He was at the race course every day and got to know every horse in competition there. But there was one horse the 88-year-old retired judge doesn't remember seeing or hearing about: Seabiscuit.

Seabiscuit is best known for beating defending Horse of the Year War Admiral in the Pimlico Special Nov. 1, 1938. The race drew around 40,000 spectators and was broadcast on the radio to 40 ...

Horse racing has inspired many big screen features ... v=UKmuvjL2cVw Based on the book "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand ("Unbroken"), this biopic follows the undersized ...

The favorite in the wide-open race is 7-2 Jubilant Joanie ... I know she’s not Seabiscuit, but she is to us.” Hibdon has never had a horse in the Claiming Crown, which celebrates the sport ...

Now Seabiscuit by a length and a half ... MARTÍNEZ: Now, it's not just only about the poor state of Pimlico. Horse racing, with the exception of the Kentucky Derby, just is not as popular ...

“Once a horse gives Seabiscuit the old look-in-the-eye,” Red Pollard, sidelined by an injury, had told Woolf the night before the race, “he begins to run to parts unknown.” That’s just ...