“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.

Oscar Otis, track announcer, Seabiscuit vs. Ligaroti, Aug. 12, 1938 It was the event that put the Del Mar Racetrack on the map. The horse racing duel between the thoroughbreds Seabiscuit and ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is why the $250,000 Seabiscuit Handicap ... Fitzgerald never wrote about horse racing. He left that world to guys like his pal, Ernest Hemingway, and later John Steinbeck and William Faulkner.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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