Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Blood-Horse

, February 24, 1951, p. 432.

11

“I’d rather depend on my eye …”: Ibid.

12

“It’s easy to talk to a horse …”: Theodus Carroll,

Firsts Under the Wire: The World’s Fastest Horses

(New York: Contemporary Perspectives, 1978), p. 29.

13

“Learn your horse …”: “Seabiscuit Makes Debut,”

Los Angeles Times, De

cember 28, 1936.

14

Oriley: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; “History of Silent Tom Smith,”

Morning Telegraph/Daily Racing Form, SB

, March 1939; “Silent Tom Smith,”

SB

, March 16, 1940.

15

living out of a horse stall: Noble Threewit, telephone interview, January 17, 1998.

16

“the best trainer …”: Joe Estes, “Thoroughbred Farms in California,”

Blood-Horse, SB

, n.d., p. 676.

CHAPTER 3

1

Smith’s clothes: “Best San Francisco Horse,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, late 1936.

2

hat story: “Silent Tom Smith,”

SB

, March 16, 1940.

3

alarm clock: “Alarm Clock for Training,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, 1936.

4

Smith discovers Seabiscuit: Beckwith,

Seabiscuit

, p. 25; “Hey for Seabiscuit,”

San Francisco Chronicle

, May 14, 1938.

5

duck waddle: Stoneridge,

Great Horses of Our Time

, p. 35.

6

“mostly in his heart …”: Ibid.