Seabiscuit: An American Legend

, p. 114.

31

trial race: “Smith Recalls Stipulation That Could’ve Stopped Seabiscuit Sale,”

Daily Racing Form

, February 13, 1953; “Biscuit’s Best Race Recalled,”

SB

, November 3, 1938; “The Judge’s Stand,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, March 7, 1940.

32

“I can’t describe the feeling …”: Beckwith,

Seabiscuit

, p. 27.

33

Seabiscuit might … win another purse: “Turf King,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, n.d.

34

“Deal or no deal?”: Beckwith,

Seabiscuit

, p. 27.

35

“Looks like they got a new saddle horse …”: Farrell Jones, telephone interview, November 4, 1998.

CHAPTER 4

1

“His win percentage had dropped …”: Source:

Daily Racing Form

, Monthly Edition, August, 1936, Volume XVI, No 8. 1936 by Regal Press, Inc.,p. 22.

2

Red Pollard’s history: Edith Wilde, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; “Pollard’s Bricks Helped Build City,”

Strathcona Plaindealer

, Summer 1983, p. 1; “Jockey Pollard Recovering,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form, SB

, July 1938; David Alexander, “Four Good Legs Between Them,”

Blood-Horse

, December 24, 1955, pp. 1558–63.

3

bartering gasoline for groceries: Edith Wilde, telephone interview, February 2, 1998.

4

hitching the horse to his toboggan: Ibid.

5

“the body of a dancer …”: Norah Christianson, telephone interview, January 26, 1998.

6

ovals cut through hayfields: Keith Stucki, telephone interview, March 25, 1998.

7

elite quarter horses have been clocked at peak speeds of well over fifty miles per hour: George Pratt, e-mail interview, April 10, 1998.

8

abandoned at track: Edith Wilde, telephone interview, February 2, 1998.

9