Classic Horse Books. Seabiscuit. Laura Hillenbrand

Classic Horse Books

Classic Horse Books. Seabiscuit. Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand

In 1938, after ten years of turmoil, a small crooked-legged racehorse received more press coverage then Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt, or any other news figure. Towards the end of the Depression, Seabiscuit' was an icon, enjoying broad-based adulation throughout America.

To see him race, his fans crowded the roads and poured onto special "Seabiscuit Limited" trains. Wearing Seabiscuit' hats, they packed hotels and restaurants bringing welcome business in bleak times. His appearances smashed attendance records at every major racetrack and seventy-eight thousand people attended his last race, a crowd comparable to the Super Bowls. Radio broadcasts of his races created excitement across the country, drawing forty million listeners and as many as forty thousand fans turned up for his track workouts.

He gazed from massive billboards throughout America and every week he featured in Time' Life' Newsweek' Look' Pic' and New Yorker.' His trainer, Tom Smith, a humble, struggling mustang breaker, his Jockey, Red Pollard, a tragic, failed jockey turned boxer, and his owner, Charles Howard, a bicycle mechanic, before creating an automotive empire, became heroes and their every move was recorded by the glare of the flashbulb.

Seabiscuit was a small, mud-coloured horse with crooked forelegs and because he was misunderstood and mishandled, spent two years floundering in the lowest ranks of racing. In 1936, recognising the talent dormant in Seabiscuit, the unlikely alliance of Pollard, Smith, and Howard was formed and so began the emergence of an iconic racehorse that would propel all of them to stardom.

But it wasn't all milk and honey. In the following five years, the Seabiscuit team and America experienced a roller coaster of unbelievable anguish and exultation. The little horse had to endure bad fortune, conspiracy and injury on the way to becoming one of history's most extraordinary athletes.

He travelled more than fifty thousand exhausting railroad miles, carried punishing weights against the best horses in the country, and shattered more than a dozen track records. His spectacular match with his arch rival, Triple Crown champion War Admiral' is still regarded as the greatest horse race ever run.

In her international best-seller, "Seabiscuit," Laura Hillenbrand has created an inspiring narrative of winning against the odds, a classic tale of three embattled individuals and a horse that overcame the Depression and captivated the world.

Seabiscuit' is now the subject of a major international motion picture. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper star in the true story of a long shot that became a legend.

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The Author

Laura Hillenbrand was born on May 15th 1967 in Fairfax, Virginia. She studied at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, but was forced to leave before graduation when she contracted Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which she has struggled with ever since.

Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Equus, American Heritage, The Bloodhorse, Thoroughbred Times, The Blackstretch, Turf and Sport Digest, and many other publications.

In 1998, her American Heritage' article on the horse, Seabiscuit, won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing.

Her acclaimed novel, Seabiscuit. An American Legend,' won her the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. The book later became the basis of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit.'

She now lives in Washington DC and rarely travels because of her condition. She is a co-founder of Operation Iraqi Children.'

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