Four Legged Heroes: Seabiscuit's Comeback 

Ditto Tony, read the book, than watched the movie, than, came here to more.

Me too. I cried on documentaries of it too.

Oh boy, I hear ya there. You said it all. Thanks!

yes !

Scott Glenn's work as a narrator is among the all time greats (IMHO). Chris Cooper good too.

Yes, Seabiscuit (Pops) probably would have continued to run on and on! Seabiscuit probably thinking, eat my dust!

ADMIRAL NOT THAT GREAT

Be that as it may, the story, the legacy would never have had the impact that it does even today.

And probably not - if the horse and the jockey had not had their Job experiences they would probably not have done what they did do because of those experiences.

Yes, she leaned toward artistic license.

@@stevek8829 oh well, she got me excited about Seabiscuit

Yeah, no idea how many times I've replayed it, still gets to me. (I blame it on the fiddler.) If you like Ennio Morricone (RIP), check out the War Admiral/Biscuit match race: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aQx3FMoDGE0.html I lifted a segment from "Untouchables", dropped it in over the original race footage, and with one 10-sec edit (dumb luck), the music matched the video stride-for-stride. PS: I have explicitly refused to monetize this tube-site, but YT screws it up with ads anyway. Time to replace RU-vid (...working on it.)

That is what is quintessentially American about this story. America is a nation of immigrants and dreams. People come here looking for a life they believe they can find no where else. They believe that dreams can be achieved here. Pollard and Wolfe may have been born in Canada but their story, the confluence of these people, this horse and the time and situation they were living in did not and could not occur in just this way anywhere else. This is truly a quintessentially American story.

...And technically speaking, 'America' encompasses the entire western hemisphere !;)

And Seabuiscuits mother and her family were from where i live here in the uk. Seabuiscuits maternal grandsire Normandy won the European Trail Feature 2x (thats two lots of 4 invite only races for top colts/stallions in europe). Hes still the only horse to have done it more than once. Normandy looked like Seabuiscuit. Same size and colour. Same bandy knees. The resemblance is startling. Normandy died of old age at 29 in the 1920s. He is in the European Racing Hall of Fame. And you can visit his gravesite at Bel Doube Horse Park near St Lo in France. Where when he was alive his owner and family owned the Bel Doube Racing Stable... And later stud farm. If you talk about Seabuiscuit in France. Theyll tell you about Normandy. And they know how he made the lines that led to this little guy being born. And what Seabuiscuit was for america in the Depression. Also another fact Normandy was still being ridden everyday and often ponied other racers to the track and back. He was just as tough.

Every horse has a different story.