Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. From 1936 to 1940, Americans thronged to racetracks to watch the small, ungainly racehorse become a champion. He had an ...

The racetrack was one of the few places to gamble in the 1930s, Archive Photos By the time the Great Depression descended on the nation like a bitter cold front, horse racing in the United States was ...

Seabiscuit was not an impressive-looking horse. He was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep in his stall rather than exercise. He’d been written off by most of the racing industry after ...

Patrick T. Conley is historian laureate of Rhode Island and a former supervisor of drug testing at Narragansett Race Track. As the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby begins the 2024 quest for horse ...

Trainer Phil D'Amato started three runners in the Nov. 25 Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T) on the Del Mar turf and came away with the Trifecta, as Easter , Hong Kong Harry , and Balnikhov nabbed the first ...

Kretz Racing's Cabo Spirit will try to secure the third grade 2 win of his career and his fifth graded stakes score overall when he faces an expected eight other rivals in the Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T ...

They don't make horses like Seabiscuit anymore; fortunately, his story lives on in the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand and the movie directed by Gary Ross that opens July 25. Bay Meadows has ...

Owner Michael Foster's Next is on a six-race winning streak, with a combined margin of victory of over eighty lengths. The 6-year-old son of Not This Time was a $62,500 claim in April of 2022; Foster ...

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