Made into a major motion picture starring Toby Maguire and Jeff Daniels. This is a story which topped the bestseller charts for over two years a riveting tale of grit, grace, luck and an underdog’s stubborn determination to win against all odds. Misunderstood and mishandled, Seabiscuit had spent seasons floundering in the lowest ranks of racing until a chance meeting of three men. He was a cultural icon and a world-class athlete – and an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse by the name of Seabiscuit. In 1938 one figure received more press coverage than Mussolini, Hitler or Roosevelt. Seabiscuit the Wonder Horse by Meghan McCarthy - Award-winning nonfiction picture book creator Meghan McCarthy tells the story of how an undersized. JUST AS COMPELLING TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1938.From the author of Unbroken – a major motion picture releasing in 2015 – this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse, Seabiscuit.
shows an extraordinary talent for describing a horse race so vividly that the reader feels like the rider.” - Sports Illustrated More than just a horse’s tale, because the humans who owned, trained, and rode Seabiscuit are equally fascinating. A first-rate piece of storytelling, leaving us not only with a vivid portrait of a horse but a fascinating slice of American history as well.” - The New York Times
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. 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. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains.
Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:Ĭharles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire.
But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. 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.
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