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Hillenbrand, Laura.
Seabiscuit :
an American legend /
Laura Hillenbrand.
First mass market paperback edition.
New York :
Ballantine Books,
2003.
453 pages :
illustrations ;
19 cm.
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Originally published: New York : Random House, c2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-440) 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.
Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
20200101.
Seabiscuit
Race horse
1933-1947.
Race horses
United States
Biography.
Horse racing
United States.