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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.
Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that „the day of the horse is past”; trainer Tom Smith, a man who „had cultivated an almost mystical communication with horses”; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube. Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of „team Seabiscuit,” from early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to „Horse of the Year”--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes the… (tovább)
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2001
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