Seabiscuit: An American Legend

, March 26, 1938, FD.

23

Yummy: David Alexander, “Four Good Legs Between Them,”

Blood-Horse

, December 24, 1955, pp. 1558–1563; Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, pp. 184–85, 187; Harold Washburn, telephone interview, November 9, 1998; Keith Stucki, telephone interview, February 11, 1999; Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999.

24

Pollard’s six percent win average: Jockey statistics for 1/11/36 to 8/25/36,

Daily Racing Form

, August 1936.

25

car wreck: “King of Horses,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, March 17, 1940.

26

27 cents: Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, pp. 184–85.

27

Pollard meets Seabiscuit: “King of Horses,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, March 17, 1940; Moody,

Come On Seabiscuit

, pp. 35–37.

CHAPTER 7

1

so thin that hips could have made a passable hat rack: “Both Barrels,”

San Francisco Call-Bulletin

, March 2, 1940, FD.

2

Seabiscuit’s condition and behavior, Smith’s treatment: Keith Stucki, telephone interview, March 25, 1998; Beckwith,

Seabiscuit

, p. 30; “Seabiscuit Makes Debut,”

Los Angeles Times

, December 28, 1936; “Seabiscuit Was Bad Boy,” SB; “Seabiscuit Trainer Says He’s Another Discovery,”

San Francisco Chronicle

, February 13, 1937; “Seabiscuit Crossed Up Clockers,”

Los Angeles

Times, March 1, 1937; “Seabiscuit Was a Stall Walker,”

SB

, fall 1937.

3

wooden-legged racetrack cat: Palmer,

This Was Racing

, p. 226.

4

goat: “Seabiscuit Was Bad Boy,” SB; Beckwith,