Seabiscuit: An American Legend

1999.

37

target practice: Wad Studley, telephone interview, March 2, 1999.

38

Three hundred tracks had been operating: Tom Biracree and Wendy Insinger,

The Complete Book of Thoroughbred Horse Racing

(Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1982), p. 143.

39

departing Hollywood film crew: Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999.

40

Howard to Tijuana: Carter Swart, “The Howards of San Francisco,”

Northern California Thoroughbred

, fall 1981, p. 111.

41

Howard loses interest in automobiles: Tom Moriarty, “California Sportsman,”

Rob Wagner’s Script

, March 18, 1938.

42

Meeting Marcela: Swart, “The Howards of San Francisco,” p. 111.

43

Blooey: “A Blue Monkey Visits New York,”

New York American, SB

, 1935.

44

Giannini: Joe Estes, “Thoroughbred Farms in California,”

Blood-Horse, SB

, n.d., p. 676.

45

“Doc” Strub: David Alexander,

A Sound of Horses

(New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1966), pp. 51–70; Mary Fleming,

A History of the Thoroughbred in California

(Arcadia, Cal.: California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, 1983), pp. 95–97.

46

1935 average income: Eastman,

Almanac 1938

, p. 288.

47

“hunnert-grander”: “Seabiscuit’s Past,”

Los Angeles Times, SB

, winter 1938.

48

America’s most heavily attended sport: Tom Gilcoin, telephone interview, February 28, 1997.

CHAPTER 2

1

A journalist who had watched Smith: “Like Mike and Ike,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, n.d.

2

chop off his own toe: Alexander,