Seabiscuit is the ultimate underdog story. Seabiscuit was an unlikely, champion; his legs were crooked and for wo years, he floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men. Tom Smith, a virtually, mute mustang breaker who had come from the vanishing frontier, bearing the secrets of horses. Red Pollard, a half-blind failed failing jockey who had been living in a horse stall since being abandoned at a makeshift racetrack as a boy. Charles Howard, a bicycle repairman who made a fortune by introducing the automobile to the American West. Bought for a bargain-basement price by Howard and rehabilitated by Smith and Pollard. Seabiscuit overcame a phenomenal run of bad fortune to become one of the most spectacular, dominant and charismatic performers in sports history. Competing in the cruelest years of the Depression, the rags-to-riches horse emerged as an American cultural icon, inspiring an avalanche of merchandising, and establishing himself as the single biggest newsmaker of 1938. Seabiscuit has a novel-like suspense that keeps the uninformed reader rapt and engrossed. It which describes the regional split between east and west coast race horses, fundamentally describes the potential and scrappy nature of the American west. A terrific read. A #1 New York Times bestseller.