(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.
Additional authors not listed in thread header: Felix Belair Jr., G.H. Archambault
Aid Sped to Vessel – 2-3
Five Towns Taken – 4-5
Rumania Increases Army to 1,600,000 – 5
Food Restrictions in Force in France – 5
$600,000 For Finns Raised by Industry – 5
The International Situation – 6
Tass Asserts Lansing Tried to Balk Soviet – 6
Hlinka Guard Rise Disturbs Slovaks – 6
New Italian Bond Issue Called Most Successful – 6
Big Reich Warship and 2 U-Boats Are Reported Off Southern Brazil – 7
Vatican Post Goes to Jew As Italy’s Ban Is Imposed – 7
Legislators Defy Long, Ignore Call to Session – 7
Berlin Bars Peace – 8-9
France Lacks News on Arrival of Welles; Government Gathers War Data for Him – 9
Reich Envoy to Ireland Denies Giving Peace Plan – 9
Nazis Raid Convoy; Say Ships Were Hit – 10
Soviet Reported Planning Convoys – 11
Merchant Ships Sunk in War – 11
Netherlands Finds Nazi Radio Station – 11
British Wool Control Rapped in Australia – 11
British Bare Study of Magnetic Mines – 12
Australia Pledges Sevenfold Air Force – 12
Japan Keeps Rule in Shanghai Pact – 13
Critic of China Policy to Quit Japanese Diet; Saito’s Speech Drew Fire of Army Leaders – 13
Protest to Lothian on Palestine Monday – 13
President’s Train Speeds to capital – 14
Active War Plans Under Way in west – 15
Seabiscuit Heads Santa Anita Field * - 18
* See reply #3 for back story.