Kinesiology 3378F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Red Pollard, War Admiral, Binoculars
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21 Jul 2016
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Sport in Lit – Week 5 13:29
Sea Biscuit
Cougar – Red Pollard’s nickname when he was a boxer; named all his dog’s cougar
Unremarkable grey fedora hat – Tom Smith (trainer) wore this
How do horses sleep? Standing up; Seabiscuit was different and lay down
Seabiscuit would eat his bedding if he was still hungry
Imposts – the weight the horses had to ride with during the race; if a horse was better,
they had to ride with more weight caused unpredictability
Who used intimidation to win? Seabiscuit would let a horse catch up then take off
Grog – horse that pretended to be Seabiscuit so people would watch him and think it
was Seabiscuit
Second Civil War – east vs. west
Pricking ears – waiting for the jockey give Seabiscuit to go; Seabiscuit is readying
himself
Bing Crosby – singer, wrote “White Christmas”
Track tractor print – Wolf found the track point that was harder, found the night prior to
the race would give Seabiscuit the advantage to run on this part of the track
“So long, Charley” – jockey turned around when Seabiscuit is just about to take off and
would say it
Furlong – an eighth of a mile
Seabiscuit’s body was very different from his competitors (ex. War Admiral) and people
didn’t understand why he was so fast – weird knees, shorter, disorganized gallop, etc.
Hillenbrand and the book:
Writing about history and thoroughbred racing since 1988
Paid $13,000 for one of Seabiscuit’s horse shoes
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) – would sometimes take her a day just to type a page
Discussion:
1. If you were watching Seabiscuit race in the late 1930’s, describe what you would see:
a. Would only see people of higher society
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