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Seabiscuit
Even with huge setbacks and obstacles in a persons path, with the proper help they can still achieve great success. The novel Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand, is about a small racehorse who achieves great success on and off the racetrack. In the novel, there are three main characters that help Seabiscuit on his incredible journey, which are Charles Howard, Tom Smith, and Red Pollard. ...
A colt named Seabiscuit was first introduced to them at Boston’s Suffolk Downs. ... Seabiscuit did not resemble the beauty and breadth of his forebears. ...
Seabiscuit was not very good in his earliest racing years. Bought and sold by many stables, Seabiscuit showed potential but only when he wanted to. In his first three years of racing, Seabiscuit had been raced thirty-five times. ...
One day, they had seen a horse that they would love to buy, his name was Seabiscuit. ... Seabiscuit had been trained for a couple of years by the great James Fitzsimmons and he was deeply fond of the colt. Since Seabiscuit was not racing so well, Mills decided to cut his losses and sell the colt to Charles Howard. ...
With great anticipation from the Howards, Seabiscuit started to show signs of greatness under Tom Smith’s training. ... ”
Since Seabiscuit was showing signs of a true Thoroughbred racehorse, Tom Smith wanted to keep him a secret. ... Reporters would try to find the best opportunity to get a story on Seabiscuit, but were never very successful. At the time, Seabiscuit was one of the biggest stories in the country. ... He was about to maximize his horse’s exposure and take Seabiscuit on a cross-country racing campaign. At the time he was running full page ads on all of Seabiscuit’s wins. ... People all over the country were now able to tune in and listen to Seabiscuit’s races. ... Howard would also put on photo shoots and even hand out Seabiscuit’s old horseshoes. People loved everything about Seabiscuit. They would buy anything from Seabiscuit wallets to Seabiscuit hats. Howard would sometimes send out post cards with Seabiscuit shoe prints on them. ...
By this time, Seabiscuit was wining more and more races and was worth over $100,000. ... ” In 1937, Seabiscuit had beaten everything the East had to offer and he was ready to advance to western racing. ...
A tragic strain on the tendon in his leg left Seabiscuit out of racing for a while. ... After a months rest, Seabiscuit resumed his winnings at the Continental Handicap in New York’s Jamaica Race Track. ...
Seabiscuit had also won Horse and Horseman plaque for Horse of the Year, but this was not good enough for Howard. ...
The day of the race, Seabiscuit was in his final workout and injured his leg again. ... This not only happed at Belmont, but in another meeting with War Admiral, Seabiscuit strained his leg again. ... They targeted Seabiscuit as lame and that Howard was too scared to race against War Admiral.
Approximate Word count = 2451
Approximate Pages = 9.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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