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	Seabiscuit-An American Legend
		Seabiscuit was in serious need of some rest and relaxation, and a chance to form a bond with people.
		Seabiscuit's new companions were a stray dog named Pocatell, a spider monkey known as Jo Jo, and his lifelong traveling mate, a calm horse name Pumpkin.
		Seabiscuit’s 5 year old season started off with a bang, as just weeks before he was to run in the Santa Anita Derby for the second time, he was jockey less.
	www.tbgreats.com /seabiscuit/bio.html (1896 words)

	Seabiscuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seabiscuit was born from the mare Swing On and sired by Hard Tack (son of Man O' War).
		The son was named for the father; the word "seabiscuit" is a synonym for a type of cracker known as "hardtack".
		Seabiscuit, on the other hand, was a pace stalker, skilled at holding with the pack before destroying the field with late acceleration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seabiscuit (2808 words)

	Seabiscuit in Mendocino County: goMendo
		Seabiscuit lived and is buried at Ridgewood Ranch between Willits and Ukiah along Highway 101 in central Mendocino County.
		Seabiscuit had suffered under owners and trainers who didn't understand the horse, and he was as bitter and confused as a horse can be.
		Seabiscuit, a nearly forgotten also ran grew to be one of the greatest racehorses in history.
	www.gomendo.com /stories/7_Seabiscuit.html (660 words)

	American Experience \| Seabiscuit \| Mammals & Events
		Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history.
		Mid-way through his third season, when Seabiscuit came under the care of owner Charles Howard and trainer Tom Smith, he was refusing to eat and weighed 200 pounds less than he should.
		There was nowhere to go: Seabiscuit was boxed in by two horses, one in front of him on the rail and the other to his outside.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/seabiscuit/mammalsevents/m_seabiscuit.html (1104 words)

	National Sporting Library - NSL Collection Highlights - Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
		Seabiscuit was a mediocre claiming horse until Charles Howard purchased him for a song.
		Seabiscuit became a national hero under the care of Smith and Pollard which climaxed into an East-meets-West match race at Pimlico Race Course on November 1, 1938.
		Seabiscuit from California was pitted against the 1937 Triple Crown Winner, War Admiral.
	www.nsl.org /mar1bk.htm (495 words)

	Seabiscuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seabiscuit could have been made in the 1940s--and it was, as My Friend Flicka: two untamed spirits tamed by one another while various authority figures wisely cheer them on.
		But Seabiscuit is altogether too innocuous to inspire much deep thought, so drunk on its own sense of self-importance that it manages the fantastic feat of both stripping the source material down to its bare bones and dangerously bloating it.
		Seabiscuit is ponderous mainstream pap of the "suspended mote" school of controversy-free nostalgia, blazed a late-summer ago by the similarly piffle Road to Perdition.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/seabiscuitr.htm (681 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Seabiscuit
		Seabiscuit was consistently regarded as an underdog even long after the smart money should have been placed on him.
		Seabiscuit's career was indeed remarkable, but was he truly the "number one newsmaker" of 1938, garnering more newspaper coverage than world leaders, popular entertainers, and celebrated sports figures of the human variety?
		Seabiscuit was mentioned at least once in an impressive 258 different articles, which works out to nearly five appearances per week throughout the entire year.
	www.snopes.com /sports/horse/seabiscuit.asp (1264 words)

	Seabiscuit Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Seabiscuit is the story of four unlikely journeys crossing paths, one of which happens to be that of a horse.
		Seabiscuit clocks in at almost two and a half hours but breezes along, thanks to strong performances and even stronger direction by Gary Ross.
		Seabiscuit reunites Ross with Pleasantville collaborators Maguire and William H. Macy, and the latter's performance as a racing announcer is one of the film's highlights.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=137680 (1462 words)

	Amazon.com: Seabiscuit: An American Legend: Books: Laura Hillenbrand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seabiscuit's trainer embodied the western spirit and had an uncanny bond with the horse - he was a real-life horse whisperer.
		Seabiscuit was the hub of these three lives and their extraordinary accomplishment on the racetrack.
		Seabiscuit is a compelling and riveting story about a connection between a horse, his jockey, and the entire nation that everyone - horse lovers and ignorant readers alike - will love.
	amazon.com /Seabiscuit-American-Legend-Laura-Hillenbrand/dp/0449005615 (1638 words)

	Seabiscuit (2003): Reviews
		Seabiscuit revives the sweeping pleasures of movies that address and respect the mass audience, raising the common denominator instead of pandering to it.
		Seabiscuit may be too airbrushed for its own good, but in the end nothing can stop this story from putting a lump in your throat.
		Seabiscuit is a good enough movie, in the sense that it's a well-crafted assemblage of pathos and rousing moments, solidly acted and handsomely shot -- but it's far from champion material.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/seabiscuit (1610 words)

	Seabiscuit and Red Pollard - Reel Faces at ChasingtheFrog
		Seabiscuit was a direct descendant (grandson) of the legendary horse Man O'War.
		Looking back prior to Seabiscuit's Santa Anita win, when both he and Seabiscuit were too broken down and injured to conceivably ever race again, Red remembered, "Seabiscuit and I were a couple of old cripples together, all washed up.
		Seabiscuit's overall racing record was 89 starts, 33 wins, 15 second place finishes, 13 thirds, and his total earnings were $437,730.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/seabiscuit.php (1079 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Seabiscuit" review (2003) Gary Ross, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges
		The miracle success story of a too-small steed and his too-large jockey who together came to dominate and popularize horse racing in the late 1930s, the film is a metaphor for the underdog hope of the era that it captures so transportingly.
		While "Seabiscuit" takes place is a romanticized world without vice (exposing Pollard's alcoholism or the gambling that drives horseracing would break the movie's sanguine spell) and sometimes simplifies storytelling through coincidence, Ross and cinematographer John Schwartzman ("The Rookie") recover the film's realism in the vivid electricity they bring to the racetrack scenes.
		After bonding with Seabiscuit and the other characters as he's retrained to unleash his inborn bravado, when these two punch out of the starting gate with fiery but unruffled gusto, it raises goosebumps that don't subside for the rest of the movie.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/seabiscuit.html (508 words)

	USATODAY.com - The stars align for 'Seabiscuit' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But for Seabiscuit, the wobbly-legged runt of a Thoroughbred that galloped to glory in the waning years of the Depression, it took a grief-stricken owner, a half-blind jockey and a tight-lipped trainer to propel the singular steed to unlikely greatness.
		Their collective can-do spirit permeates the air here at Santa Anita Racetrack, the site of Seabiscuit's final victory in 1940 and the place where the new $86 million movie version of his exploits was partially shot.
		Similarly, the three stars of Seabiscuit — that rarest of summer breeds, a thoughtful adult-oriented drama — hope to lead their cinematic dark horse to triumph as it enters the starting gate at theaters today.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-07-24-seabiscuit_x.htm (2090 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
		Seabiscuit grew so popular as a cultural icon that in 1938, he commanded more space in American newspapers than any other public figure.
		Seabiscuit possessed all the qualities for which the Thoroughbred has been prized since the English imported the breed's three foundation sires from the Middle East three hundred years ago.
		Horses of Seabiscuit's stature, from Man o' War in the 1920s to Cigar in the 1990s, have always generated a powerful gravitational field of their own, attracting crowds of people into their immediate orbit, shaping relationships among them, and even affecting the personalities of those nearest them.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/seabiscuit1.asp (611 words)

	Seabiscuit (2003) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to "Horse of the Year"--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral.
		Seabiscuit is a story of a racehorse who captured the fancy of the American people in 1938.
		Seabiscuit captured the hearts of the struggling nation because if he could overcome his difficulties, the people of the Depression had a chance to overcome theirs.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /seabiscuit.htm (1227 words)

	Historical Stories - Horse Racing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seabiscuit was born in 1933, the son of the hot-tempered Hard Tack, who was out of Man o' War.
		Red Pollard, Seabiscuit's regular rider, had been so badly injured in a racetrack spill at Santa Anita earlier in the year that he was still out of action.
		A statue of Seabiscuit was erected in the east grandstand gardens of Santa Anita not long after the champion retired.
	horseracing.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /library/blseabis.htm (3003 words)

	SEABISCUIT
		Seabiscuit might be this year's version of Road to Perdition — a Christmas movie stuck in the summer, debuting too early in the season for Oscar voters to remember.
		Seabiscuit, the stocky, knobby-kneed grandson of the legendary Manowar, might actually be the film's most interesting yet most underutilized character, the problem being that most Hollywood horses don't have much range (perhaps they should have cast Sarah Jessica Parker).
		But anyone unhappy with Seabiscuit, especially after suffering though a summer full of colon-ized films long on title and short on originality, needs to have their head examined.
	www.sick-boy.com /seabiscuit.htm (638 words)

	Amazon.com: Seabiscuit (Full Screen Edition): DVD: Michael Angarano,Mariah Bess,Sam Bottoms,Cameron Bowen,Jeff ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Led by Tobey Maguire as Seabiscuit's hard-luck jockey, the film's first-rate cast is uniformly excellent, including William H. Macy as a wacky trackside announcer who fills this earnest film with a much-needed spirit of fun.
		Seabiscuit is a hero and an inspiration in his own right, not only because he won races - but also because he gave hope to so many people at a time when they really needed it.
		Seabiscuit was too small and not well trained when Charles Howard, a self-made rich man recovering from a personal tragedy, took him on.
	www.amazon.com /Seabiscuit-Full-Screen-Michael-Angarano/dp/B0000DCGT0 (2713 words)

	TIME: Seabiscuit Wins!
		Seabiscuit is the sentimental, but not mawkish, story of the no-hope horse who gave everyone hope
		Temperamental War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), was champion of the three-year-olds and the darling of the tracks because of his spectacular habit of getting in front at the start and staying there.
		It was Seabiscuit who was pulling away—one length, two lengths, three lengths—in a crazy burst of speed.
	www.time.com /time/2003/seabiscuit/story.html (703 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Seabiscuit at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seabiscuit is an underdog who eventually overcomes adversity.
		Seabiscuit is a very inspiring and entertaining story.
		Lauren Hillenbrand wrote the book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend and the movie was adapted from it.
	www.epinions.com /content_107324280452 (793 words)

	Movie Review - Seabiscuit - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
		"Seabiscuit" must be the long-awaited summertime version of an Oscar hopeful.
		Without much effort at all, Seabiscuit the horse can be seen as a representative of America: strong and resilient, down but not out, bent but not broken.
		Ross is not shy in playing up the parallels between Red and Seabiscuit, and Maguire's scenes with the horse (a 4-year-old gelding called Fighting Furarri) are sweetly moving, like two old friends hanging out together.
	www.ericdsnider.com /movies/seabiscuit (582 words)

	National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
		Seabiscuit's career began slowly and consisted primarily of claiming races.
		Seabiscuit and War Admiral were the only competitors in the Pimlico Special of 1938, making it a de facto match race.
		Seabiscuit was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1958.
	www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=132 (260 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse: Books: Laura Hillenbrand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse -- Seabiscuit -- that symbolised a pivotal moment in American history, as the twentieth century's greatest nation found the courage to bet on itself to win against the odds.
		Seabiscuit is also the story of three men: Tom Smith, a former Wild West Showman was the trainer; Red Pollard, abandoned by his poverty stricken family at a race track became the rider; and Charles Howard, a pioneer car manufacturer in San Francisco in the 1920s was the owner and financier.
		Seabiscuit is aslo the story of three men: Tom Smith, a former Wild West Showman was the trainer; Red Pollard, abandoned by his poverty stricken family at a race track became the rider; and Charles Howard, a pioneer car manufacturer in San Francisco in the 1920s was the owner and financier.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Seabiscuit-True-Story-Three-Racehorse/dp/0007167040 (2484 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: Seabiscuit, directed by Gary Ross
		When Seabiscuit starts to stun the racing world with his blazing speed, Howard reclaims his exuberant belief in the future of endless possibilities.
		More than 25 million Americans were unemployed, and for many of them following Seabiscuit's exploits on the radio or from the packed infields of the racetracks was their only happy entertainment.
		Seabiscuit crosses the finish line as a convincing winner with its robust story of an underdog horse and three nobodies who join him in what becomes an adventure for the whole country.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=6466 (980 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Seabiscuit [2003]: DVD: Tobey Maguire,Jeff Bridges,Gary Ross,Chris Cooper,William H. Macy,Elizabeth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seabiscuit was a horse who needed time to mature, he wasn’t the precocious type like Triple-Crown Winner War Admiral, and he wouldn’t have had time to show his potential in our racing system where horses are raced very early and retired at age 3 or 4.
		It's interesting to note, however, that the showdown between Seabiscuit and War Admiral, implied in the movie as the culmination of a rivalry of words between Howard and War Admiral's owner Sam Riddle, and as the only scheduled race including the two thoroughbreds, is misleading.
		Howard scratched Seabiscuit from two of the previous because of muddy tracks, and Riddle scratched his horse from the third.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Seabiscuit-Tobey-Maguire/dp/B0000UI2Q4 (1948 words)

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