![]() ![]() The unorthodox Smith, had locked eyes with the colt, and felt intuitively that he understood him. In August of 1936, automobile entrepreneur Charles Howard bought the three year old disappointment on the recommendation of his ranch horse trainer, Tom Smith. He was badly raced and forced to lose so often that he learned no other way of competing. In the hands of trainers who did not understand his personality, he was relegated to the grueling work of making better horses feel more confident than they deserved to feel. Descended from equine royalty, Seabiscuit had been found wanting. Short, chunky, distrustful, abused, knobby-kneed and so often defeated, Seabiscuit was the most unlikely hero of them all. ![]() She needed to see one of her own climb out of the pit and ascend back into the Promised Land. It left men feeling like little more than discarded and helpless animals. The Great Depression had ravaged so much more than the economy. Not only was the nation poor, scared, hungry, and gearing up for war, but it was also broken. Together they would become the hard luck heroes for a troubled nation.” – Seabiscuit PBS Documentary “Separately they were nothing more than a failing jockey and a broken down horse. ![]()
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