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Ballantine Books
July 2003
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Featuring: Charles Howard; Tom Smith; Red Pollard
480 pages
ISBN: 0345465083
EAN: 9780345465085
Mass Market Paperback
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Non-Fiction Sports
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular
attractions in sports history and the single biggest
newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage
than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a
surprise to the racing establishment, which had written
off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three
men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes: Charles Howard was a
onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to
the western United States and became an overnight
millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new
racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang
breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to
buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as
his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in
one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely
partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune,
conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from
a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an
American sports icon. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly
re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves
life is a horse race.
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