Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Come On Seabiscuit

, p. 153.

2

Howard stops going to track: “Biscuit May Come Back,”

Los Angeles Times, SB

, summer 1939.

3

“A long, hard pull …”: “Howard May Retire Seabiscuit,”

Los Angeles Evening Herald and Examiner

, March 4, 1940, p. A16.

4

“We were a couple of old cripples …”: Beckwith,

Step and Go Together

, p. 120.

5

horse and rider healed: Beckwith,

Seabiscuit

, p. 58.

6

chasing deer: Ibid.

7

“The Biscuit will come back …”: “Biscuit Secret Kept by Smith,”

San Francisco Examiner

, February 26, 1940, FD.

8

“The whole ranch became centered on the job …”: Beckwith,

Step and Go Together

, p. 121.

9

new stride: “Champ Ready,”

SB

, n.d.

10

“Our wheels went wrong together …”: “Obituary: Red Pollard,”

Blood-Horse

, March 21, 1981, p. 1773.

11

“You knew he wanted to race again …”: Beckwith,

Step and Go Together, p

. 121.

12

No elite horse had ever returned to top form: John Hervey,

American Race Horses 1940

(New York: Sagamore, 1941), pp. 200–201.

13

Agnes sure Red can’t father child: Norah Christianson, telephone interview, January 26, 1998.

CHAPTER 22

1

“I am training a cripple …”: “Big Three of Racing on List for Handicap,” December 6, 1939, p. 23, SB.

2