Seabiscuit: An American Legend

, p. 118.

CHAPTER 18

1

leg broken and reset twice: Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, p. 185.

2

Eighty-six pounds: “Sports,”

New York Journal American, SB

, n.d.

3

Pollard’s reading: David Alexander, “Four Good Legs Between Them,”

Blood-Horse

, December 24, 1955, p. 1553.

4

“Compensatory spark …”: Carl Bode, ed.,

The Portable Emerson

(New York: Viking, 1984), p. 165.

5

Red woos Agnes: Norah Christianson, telephone interview, January 26, 1998.

6

Agnes was certain he was dying: Ibid.

7

letter from Red: Edith Wilde, telephone interview, February 2, 1998.

8

Old Waldo … had been right after all: Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, p. 187.

9

Match negotiations: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., telephone interview, January 29, 1997; “By Joe Williams,”

SB

, n.d.; Drager,

Most Glorious Crown

, pp. 61–75.

10

Milton excuses himself: “Milton Asks New Starter,”

SB

, October 6, 1938.

11

secret desire for walk-up: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., telephone interview, January 29, 1997; “Thrilling Seabiscuit Story,”

San Francisco Examiner, SB

, November 1938; Tommy Bell, telephone interview, June 22, 1999.

12

“I’m going to give them birds the biggest surprise …”: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998.

13

Pollard and Woolf strategize: “The Post Parade,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, November 3, 1938.

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