02478cam a2200313 i 4500 283113760 TxAuBib 20010623120000.0 010623s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780375502910 $20.00 0375502912 $20.00 TxAuBib rda Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit : An American Legend / Laura Hillenbrand. 1st Edition. New York, NY : Random House, 2001. 399 p : ill.; hardbound ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Inlcudes biographical references (p. 349-383 and index.) Day of the horse is past -- Lone plainsman -- Mean, restive, and ragged -- Cougar and the iceman -- Boot on one foot, a toe tag on the other -- Light and shadow -- Learn your horse -- Fifteen strides -- Gravity -- War Admiral - No Pollard, no Seabiscuit -- All I need is luck -- Hardball -- Wise we boys -- Fortune's fool -- I know my horse -- Dingbustingest contest you ever clapped an eye on -- Deal -- Second civil war -- "All four of his legs are broken" -- Long, hard pull -- Four good legs between us -- One hundred grand. Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion. He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. At a gallop, he jabbled one foreleg sideways, as if he were swatting flies. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men. One was Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey who had been living in a horse stall since being abandoned as a boy at a makeshift racetrack. Another was Tom Smith, "The Lone Plainsman," an enigmatic mustang breaker who had come from the vanishing frontier, bearing generations of lost wisdom about the secrets of horses. The third was a cavalry veteran named Charles Howard, a former bicycle repairman who had made a fortune by introducing the automobile to the American West. This is a true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated the world. 20010623. Seabuscuit (Race horse.) Race horses United States Biography. Horse racing United States. United States.