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Seabiscuit
During the depression, when the "Sport of Kings" was the number one
attended sport in the country, and the hopes of many blue-collar, down-on-their-luck
underdogs attended the races, none other spoke as truly to them as a true working class
hero in Seabisuit, the crippled, lazy horse that no one believed in, and even fewer
sought to redeem. ... For example, near the first chapters of the book, Seabiscuit’s gallop was
described as, "so disorganized that he had a maddening tendency to whack himself in
the front ankle with his own hind hoof. ...
Divorced, and deeply depressed, Howard sought to start a new, different life than the
one set before - by using his connections to rebuild his life, he became an intregal part
of Seabiscuit, by hiring Tom Smith to work as a horse trainer, in his unusual turn as a
horse financier. ... the only problem was he had been so abused in his past owner-
-ships, Seabiscuit was hard-pressed to even care anymore who won a race -- if not
for the driving egotism that showed through in his personality on the track.
Approximate Word count = 767
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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