Seabiscuit: An American Legend

black market in his shoes: Joseph Mosbacher, telephone interview, November 19, 1998.

8

Phar Lap’s kangaroo saddle: Alan Goodrich, “All-Time Greatest Jockey,”

Sir!

, March 1951, p. 67.

9

“I am going to be a jockey!”: Harold Washburn, telephone interview, November 9, 1998.

10

rides half naked: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Goodrich, “All-Time Greatest Jockey,” p. 66.

11

Woolf and Genevieve: Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999.

12

“How can I keep away?”: “Me and the Biscuit,”

San Francisco Chronicle

, February 15, 1940, p. 4H.

13

manure sitting/flood: Jimmy Jones, telephone interview, February 3, Wad Studley, telephone interview, March 2, 1999; Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Chick Lang, telephone interview, January 23, 1998.

14

Woolf and Gallant Sir: Noble Threewit, telephone interview, January 17, 1998.

15

George sleeping: Goodrich, “All-Time Greatest Jockey,” pp. 65–66; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998.

16

diabetes: “Turf in Review,”

Daily Racing Form

, January 8, 1949;

Jockey’s Guild Year Book

, pp. 40–41; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Kathy Gold, R.N., telephone interview, Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, 1999; Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999.

17

three times

as many horses: “By Bud Spencer,”

Los Angeles Times

, November 4, 1944.

18

“the Desperate Dude”: Goodrich, “All-Time Greatest Jockey,” p. 65.

19

reinforced saddle: “Turf in Review,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, January 8, 1949.

20

Red blinded: Edith Wilde, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; Norah Christianson, telephone interview, January 26, 1998.

21

“only word he knows is yes …”: “Sports,”

New York Journal American, SB

, fall 1938.

22

Mexico banned gambling: “Biscuit Given Big Edge,”

SB