Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“We’ll run one-two anyway …”: “Smithiana,”

Thoroughbred Record, February

23, 1957.

3

Tommy Luther banned for “defiant and threatening attitude”: Farra,

Jockeying

, p. 63; Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; John Giovanni, telephone interview, January 23, 1998.

4

Pollard won’t join jockey meetings: Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998.

5

Yummy fighting: “The Post Parade,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, March 8, 1940.

6

Howard takes Pollard off filly: “The Post Parade,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, February 3, 1940.

7

Pollard’s secret terror: Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, p. 186.

8

Pollard criticized: Barry Whitehead, “Seabiscuit’s Santa Anita Handicap,”

Thoroughbred Record

, March 9, 1940, p. 195.

9

“My left-handed rooting section …”: “The Post Parade,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form

, February 27, 1940.

10

“And none so poor …”: untitled,

Morning Telegraph, SB

, winter 1940.

11

Pollard’s drinking: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

, p. 187.

12

“I got to wear glued shoes …”: Ibid.

13

Yummy worried about drinking: Ibid.

14

Smith and Howard argue: Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999; “Both Barrels,”

San Francisco Call-Bulletin

, March 4, 1940,

FD

.

15

Woolf and Pollard argue: Farrell Jones, telephone interview, February 25, 1999.