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Hillenbrand, Laura.

Seabiscuit : an American legend / Laura Hillenbrand. - First mass market paperback edition. - 453 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Originally published: New York : Random House, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-440) and index.

Day of the horse is past -- Lone plainsman -- Mean, restive, and ragged -- Cougar and the iceman -- Boot on one foot, a toe tag on the other -- Light and shadow -- Learn your horse -- Fifteen strides -- Gravity -- War Admiral -- No Pollard, no Seabiscuit -- All I need is luck -- Hardball -- Wise we boys -- Fortune's fool -- I know my horse -- Dingbustingest contest you ever clapped an eye on -- Deal -- Second civil war -- "All four of his legs are broken" -- Long, hard pull -- Four good legs between us -- One hundred grand.

Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.

ISBN: 0345465083 9780345465085

Subjects--Personal Names:
Seabiscuit (Race horse), 1933-1947

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race horses--United States--Biography.
Horse racing--United States.

LC Class. No.: SF355.S4 / H56 2003x

Dewey Class. No.: 798.400973