Seabiscuit was supposed to drive us to tears, clean up at the Academy Awards and rejuvenate horse racing, all in one fell swoop. That the racing industry seemed so anxious for the movie to succeed ...

“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 ...

The avuncular writer-director of "Seabiscuit" is talking about horse racing, but he could just as easily be holding forth on filmmaking. "It may have the highest mortality rate of any sport.

“Seabiscuit” is (Randy Newman, cue those triumphant-sounding bugles!) The Movie That Will Save Horse Racing. Just as Seabiscuit the horse resurrected a nation’s sagging spirit during the ...

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 ...

Others are as adamant C.S. Howard's beloved Cinderella horse won on the square. Daily Racing Form chart footnotes ... he was "declaring to win" with Seabiscuit if the finish came down to his ...

Ed Bowen, a racing historian and former editor of the Blood-Horse, said Seabiscuit's record must be taken into perspective. "He was hard-knocking, consistent and game, as opposed to the brilliant ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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