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Every horse has his own style. Some like to race on turf, some take the lead early in the race, ect. Seabiscuit liked to hang back, just keeping pace with the horses in front of him, 'stalking' them. In the last few lengths before the finish line he would literally explode with speed. While the other jockeys urged their tired mounts toward the finish line, the Biscuit needed very little urging. According to his long-time jockey Red Pollard, the horse actually thrived on humiliating the other horses in the race. He would pull even, look them in the eye, then kick dirt in their faces as he took over the lead.

At his home in California, there was always a problem of finding horses that would work out with Seabiscuit. Some would get depressed being beaten time and again by the cocky little bay. He had a rather rocky begining, it must have been sweet revenge when other horses were made to eat his dust.

I think Mr. Charles bought the Biscuit after seeing him at Saratoga in New York.

I could find no information on the exact amount Charles Howard paid his jockeys but they usually get a percentage of the purse. It differs depending on the contract between the owners and the individual jockeys. The average is %5 to %15 of the purse. At the time of his retirement Seabiscuit's earnings were almost 1/2 million dollars, which was an incredible amount of money for the time. This will give you an idea of what his riders earned.

Charles Howard, one of the main characters in the 2003 movie Seabiscuit, had a son named Frankie who was killed at the age of 15 in a truck accident. I believe that this movie is based on a true story.

After the horse, Shirley Temple's character and Barry Fitzgerald who played Seabiscuit's trainer Mr. O'Hara were the main characters.

actually seabiscuit had 2 jockeys. the main jockey was red Polard. but sense red got injurned twice (once in his arm and ribs, the second in his leg) charles howard (seabiscuit's owner) had to call in a second jockey. this jockey was named George (the iceman) Woolf. the last race that seabiscuit ran (he won) red polard was his jockey. hoped the answer helped!

War Admiral's jockey Charles Kurtsinger was played by veteren jockey Chris McCarron. Seabiscuit's jockey for the match race against War Admiral was played by real life jockey Gary Stevens. The real George 'Ice Man' Wolfe suffered a fatal fall during a race due to his diabetes which made him loose consciousness. He was trampled by at least one of the horses in the fall.

his name was George Woolf nicknamed "The Ice Man"

On the morning of the day he died, Phar lap's trainer found him in severe pain and with a high temperature. Within a few hours, Phar Lap hemorrhaged to death. When an autopsy was done on the horse, the stomach and intestines were inflamed, which lead many believed the horse had been deliberately poisoned.

Though it was never known for sure. Some people speculated that he was accidentally poisoned from lead insecticide, and had a stomach condition.

The official cause of death was heart failure. Some believe his heart was damaged from his rapid acceleration to the finish line in so many races. That's not a fact, just a theory.

In the same way that Ghandi was a movie about Ghandi, Seabiscuit was a Depression-era racehorse named Seabiscuit, which is where the name for the movie came from.

Jockey Ricky Frazier stood in for MaGuire for the more dangerous scenes. Frazier also had a small part in one of the Spiderman movies.

I don't think so. I'm not even sure if Mickey Rooney could ride. Whether he was a star or not, I doubt Mr. Howard would let someone else ride his valuable horse.

Randy Newman wrote the music for the 2003 movie Seabiscuit. Newman's strong suit is piano and vocals but he employs several top-notch guitarists:

Larry Knechtel, Ron Elliot, James Burton, Frank DeCaro, Mike Deasy, Sr., Joe Gibbons, Don Lanier, Louis Morell, Tommy Tedesco and Sal Valentino. I could not pinpoint which of these provided the guitar music for the movie.

Almost impossible to say with any degree of accuracy. Easily over 100 million per year, though many are sold in batches to be given away, with the end consumer paying nothing.

The actor that played Tom Smith is Chris Cooper. Cooper is an Oscar winning actor that is probably best known for his role as Col. Fitts in 1999s "American Beauty".

Seabiscuit:The Lost Documentary, 1939.

The Legend of Seabiscuit, 1949 (fictionalized).

Seabiscuit, 2003.

These are the ones that I know of. It is possible that an obscure film, most likely short, that has escaped my notice but it's doubtful. There are MovieTone shorts that ran between feature films in theaters at the height of Seabiscuit's fame. These shorts are part of the lost documentary film of 1939, and for all Seabiscuit lovers it's a must-see.

There is.

Seabiscuit (1933-1947), a grandson of the great racehorse Man O' War, was a small stallion, standing just 15.2 hands high, with short, crooked legs, and a tendency toward laziness. Although he was born at the prestigious Claiborne Farm and initially trained by the legendary Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Seabiscuit's early racing career was less than stellar. Relegated to a punishing series of small races, the stallion lost his first ten starts, and usually finished at the back of the pack. During the next racing season, he started 35 times, but won only five races.

Because Seabiscuit failed to live up to his potential, he was sold to Charles S. Howard as a three-year-old for $8,500 (approximately $100,000 today, adjusted for inflation).

In 1936, the horse was paired with a new trainer, Tom Smith, who not only saw Seabiscuit's potential, but was able to overcome his sluggishness. Smith and jockey Red Pollard, a poor Canadian trying to start his American racing career, immediately began seeing an improvement in Seabiscuit, who went on to win several large races at the end of the 1936 season.

In early 1937, Howard and Smith entered Seabiscuit in the Santa Anita Handicap, California's most important and richest race, sporting a purse of over $125,000 (1.5 million today). In his first race of the season at Santa Anita Park, Seabiscuit won easily. In his second race, in San Antonio, Texas, the four-year-old was bumped by another horse coming out of the gate, and finished in fifth place. A highly acclaimed horse named Rosemont won.

His third race of the season was the famed Santa Anita Handicap, where he trailed the favorite, Special Agent, for half a mile. Although both Seabiscuit and Rosemont overtook the tiring front-runner and battled hard for the lead, Seabiscuit slowed on the straightaway and lost by a nose.

Following the close second in Santa Anita, owner Charles Howard decided to move Seabiscuit to the more prestigious Eastern racing circuit, where the horse began winning regularly.

Word about Seabiscuit's lackluster early career spread, and the horse, who symbolized hope for the working man during the Great Depression, became a national favorite. By the end of 1937, Seabiscuit had won 11 of his 15 races, and was the leading money winner for the year. The horse became an instant celebrity.

But some people were less impressed. 1937 was the year War Admiral, the tiny 15.0 hand son of Man O' War, won the triple crown and was voted Eclipse Horse of the Year. This started a dispute over which was the better horse: War Admiral, the rich man's favorite, or Seabiscuit, the blue collar man's dream.

On November 1, 1938, Seabiscuit and War Admiral finally met in a highly publicized match race (only two horses running) at Pimlico Downs. The press dubbed the mile and 3/16 race the "Match of the Century." Despite Seabiscuit's popularity, War Admiral was widely favored to win, with odds of 4:1.

Both horses broke fast from the gate, with Seabiscuit leading by a length for more than 20 seconds. War Admiral ran faster, gradually catching, then overtaking Seabiscuit on the back stretch. The two ran almost neck and neck until they were 200 yards from the finish, then Seabiscuit burst forward and beat the great War Admiral by a stunning four lengths.

As a result of his racing success that year, and his victory over War Admiral, Seabiscuit was voted Eclipse Horse of the Year for 1938.

Seabiscuit differed from the traditional racing champion in several ways: 1) he was smaller than the typical race horse, at 15.2 hands; 2) he had crooked legs, which should have resulted in injury earlier in his career; 3) he had a tendency toward laziness, instead of the heart and desire of most champion racehorses; 4) he showed little promise during his first two years of racing, and was cast aside by the famous trainer, Fitzsimmons; 5) His new trainer and jockey were both considered "unknowns" in the racing industry; 6) He represented hope for working people during the Great Depression because of his humble background; 7) He defeated the 1937 Horse of the Year, War Admiral, despite the expectation he would lose.

The Kentucky Derby, the first race of the Triple Crown is just for 3 year olds. At the time that Seabiscuit was a 3 year old he was disappointing his trainers which would eventually lead him to be sold for the bottom price of several thousand dollars.When he was sole the new buyers bought him a companion named Pumpkin and his jockey was Red Paulard.Seabiscuit and Red were a toast and jam match.

The stands and infield of Pimlico Race Course held 40,000 people. In addition to that, 40 million listened at home on their radios.

Seabiscuit was a gelding just like Red rum ....

Apart from Seabiscuit was a flat racer and Red

rum was a Steeplechaser...

Seabiscuit was a bay with dark points and no white markings.

A bay horse is brown with black mane and tail, sometimes with darker areas on the nose, ears, and legs. Bay colorings can range from dull brown or near-black to reddish- or golden-brown. Seabiscuit himself was a plain dirt-brown.