The intro captures it all: He didn't look like much. With his
smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he
looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't
everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his
heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a
cultural icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
Laura Hillenbrand, a respected and acclaimed sports journalist has
really captured the essence of Seabiscuit and his meteoric rise
from glue factory candidate to prizewinner. It's an equine
Cinderella story of three men and a dream with a racehorse whose
heart endured and out-distanced the snobby Eastern equestrian set
who looked down on Western horses. Seabiscuit gave the American
public hope in the worst of times during the depression. When he
defeated the genetically and physically blessed War Admiral, Sea
Biscuits legend equaled that of Blephorous, the great war horse who
won many battles for Alexander the Great. Like Blephorous,
Seabiscuit had been rendered useless by the horse trainers, until
one man believed in him and the rest was history.