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Seabiscuit : an American legend / Laura Hillenbrand.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First mass market paperback editionDescription: 453 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0345465083
  • 9780345465085
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 798.400973 21
LOC classification:
  • SF355.S4 H56 2003x
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 798.4/HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500054586

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.

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