Seabiscuit: An American Legend

3

“If that isn’t running …”: “War Admiral’s Trainer Balks,” SB, n.d.

4

War Admiral … balked in workout: “War Minstrel Proves He Will Be ’Cap Contender,”

Boston Evening Transcript

, June 22, 1938.

5

“the miracle of the ages …”: “In Best Condition of Career,”

Boston Evening American

, June 15, 1938.

6

“We’re still on the fence …”: “War Admiral Runs at Suffolk,”

The New York Times June

29, 1938.

7

NBC radio interview: Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, pp. 180–81; David Alexander, “Four Good Legs Between Them,”

Blood-Horse

, December 24, 1955, pp. 1558–1563; Jack Shettlesworth, telephone interview, March 1998.

8

“My horse is sharper than a fishwife’s …”: “Sports,”

New York Journal American

, June 29, 1938.

9

second-largest crowd ever to attend: “War Admiral ‘Just Another Horse,’”

Wilmington Journal June

30, 1938.

10

Massachusetts scratch: “Setting the Pace,”

New York Sun

, June 30, 1938; “New England Weathers 1938,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form, SB

, n.d.; untitled article,

SB

, June 1938; “Seabiscuit’s Racing Career at End?”

SB

, June 1938; “The Race Track,”

New Yorker

, June 9, 1938.

11

“It seems things are all going wrong …”: “Menow Wins $50,000 Race,”

Boston Herald, June

30, 1938.

CHAPTER 16

1

“Looks like a cow pony …”: Beckwith,

Step and Go Together

, p. 117.

2