Heart and Hoof
Marjorie Garber: Seabiscuit, 4 October 2001
Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand.
Fourth Estate, 399 pp., £16.99, May 2001,1 84115 091 6 Show More
by Laura Hillenbrand.
Fourth Estate, 399 pp., £16.99, May 2001,
“... joke about its pedigree: ‘Travesty, by Irish Peasant, out of Bog Oak.’ Seabiscuit, the hero of Laura Hillenbrand’s celebrity biography, was by Hard Tack out of Swing On, and had a brother called Grog. In fact, Grog, less successful on the track, would come to play a strong supporting role in Seabiscuit’s story as the hero’s stand-in and ... ”