[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Evolution of Plan Yellow, October 1939-January 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

(Continued from Reply #3 on the February 29 thread.) You can follow these links back to Feb. 9 if you want to get the whole story in one shot. There are seven parts, including this one. A note on characters: Marcela is wife of owner Howard. Yummy is Pollard’s agent. And, it would seem, his enabler.

Let’s interrupt the excerpt to listen to Joe Hernandez call the race.

Santa Anita Handicap radio broadcast-March 2, 1940

You may have to scroll down just a little to get to the Audio link.

The winning time was 2 minutes, 1.2 seconds. Finish the excerpt to learn what went on during that brief span.

Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

For anyone interested, Hillenbrand’s book was made into a pretty good movie in 2003 starring Jeff Bridges as Howard, Chris Cooper as trainer Smith, and Toby “Spiderman” Maguire as Red Pollard. Available from Netflix.