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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 25, 1940
Preparation Of Wickets
Second Failure In Santa Anita H'cap: Defeat Of War Admiral
(Third Chaptor)
By Jack Guenther
·ARCADIA, Cal. (UP), Seabiscuit returned to Santa Anita Park in 1938 hailed as a champion. At the age of five he had carned $210,000. He had won the Brooklyn handicap, the Butler, Yonkers, Massachusetts, Continental and the Riggs in quick succession and he apparently had the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap at his mercy.
After the handicap, the Sun Beau money
-mark was just a step away.
But Scablacuit lived up to his nickname of "Hard Luck Kid" faster than anyone had expected. First he lost his tune-up race, the $10,000 San Antonio to Esposa by в поле. Then, favoured at 19-10 he went into the Santa Anita and there was Stagehand; one of the great stretch runners of the turf.
Starchand, was another story book horse, He came to California a maiden arid in five star's scored three triumphs. One of the races he won
Admiral, old Man O'War's favourite son. Seabiscuit, the Nouve rich west- erner, had won and he had lost, but War Admiral hud always won. He had swept the triple crown of the Derby, the Preakness and Belmont Stake and he was the king. Men. couldn't be beaten, not by any horse swore by thla king. They said br: that ever lived.
Charles
Silent Tom Smith and Howard said nothing. They brought the Biscuit to town silently. They heard 80 percent of the men who make racing their business tell them they couldn't win. But they said
them.
Lawn Bowli
OMARS WIN Minu Brothers Trounced In Open Pairs
A. M. Omar and U. M. Omar, winners of the Colony Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship In 1037, entered the third round of this year's climpionship yesterday when they trounced A. R. Minu and A. K. Minu
I on the Civil Service Green. The Omars were at their best and
secure a commanding lead of 17-3.
100-0
scored a seven on the 9th head to They led 26-8 on the 17th end and finished up with a burst of 3, 6, 2 an the last three heads. The Minus scored on only seven heads. Leads A, M. Omar and
V. M. OMMY
A, IL, Minn and A. K. Mina
was the $50,000 Santa Anita derby hothing. Seabiscuit said it all for LEAGUE TENNIS
ile was a beautiful thing, full of long-striding run, but he was Just three years old, and youngsters seldom carry their weight against n good older horse.
But what everyone forgot was Anita that Stagehaud's,Santa weight was a feather of 100 pounds while the mugged Biscuit drew 130.
**
MAYBE you remember how that
race ended. Johnny Pollard, the Biscuit's jockey, foy In a hospitul with a shattered leg while Georgie Woolf took his baby to the post.
For the first 120 seconds of the race Pollard's shouts rang through the hospital halls.
came
seconds
n
THE GREAT RACE THERE was a hush in the golden
haze of that November after- noon in Maryland as the two of them were off. But not for long. Within a dozen strides, the close packed spectators were gasping. Admiral, the fastest post horse in racing, the horse who had taken the track from every opponent he had faced, was beaten away from the tape.
the
The Biscuit beat him ail way. They still tell how the out lanter canie marching home, the drum-fire beat of his stride echo- ing off Fimilco's cream-coloured
tamps with a musle the West was
never to forgal.
At the end it was Seabiscull by
LEG INJURY
four,
of
and
Recreio Beat Kowloon C.C. In "A" Division Recreio enused on upset in the "A" Division of the Lawn Tennis League yesterday evening at King's Park when they beat Kowloon Cricket Club, minus E. C. Fincher, by six st to three after sharing the spoils at the end of the first round and ing
at the end of the second. 314-212 G.C. Burnett A. Crawford were very for the visitors and dropped all three of their sets despite the fact they were
leading at pr
at one time and other Against A. V. Gosano J. J. Remedios, they led 3-1 and with Burnett serving held about eight deures before the K.C.C. pair dropped the same and the next four in a row. A. V. Remedios and W. A. Reed bent G. C. Burnett and A. Crawford 0-3, drow with S. A. Gray and A. E. F. Guest 8-8, beat E. F. Fincher and D. J. N. Anderson 6-4.
A. V. Gosano and J. J. Remedios
Two seconds later his tears pud-} died the top of his bedside radlo. For during those two Starchand out of the clouds: to whip the champ-by nose. So in the space of four seconds and the combined distance of teacup, Seabiscuit lost $180,000 the Banta Anitas of 1037 and 1938. THE ugly runt was the king
them all that day, but off the Pollard stayed in the hospital for track he walked and into a train to almost another year, but the Biscuit be away to the wars again. He was went back on the road. Me deve- loped a game knee around this time, all for another shot at the $100,000 beat Burnett and Crawford 6-3, drew had missed with Gray und Guest 0-0, beat Fincher but on he went-through Agua Santa Anita purse he Agua twice by noses before.
and Anderson 7-5. Callente, Bay Meadows, Arlington
F. J. Remedios Then, in his first start in Call-beat Burnett and Crawford 0-3, lost to and C. A. Barretto Park, Hollywood Park, Del Mar,
fornia, the new king broke down Gray and Guest 4-6, lost to Fincher Belmont, Havre de Grace and Laurci.
and
the veterinarians said he and Anderson 3-0. His heart was too big to be stopped
would never come back. He went by weight, and it was too big to be stopped by a bad inee.
By October his winnlugs had soured to $325,486—Just a step from Sun Beau now--and Seabis- cult went into the race of the cen- tury against War Admiral di Pimlico.
WAR ADMIRAL UNDEFEATED THEY all knew the Biscuit then,
-but-Pimlico is in Maryland in the heart of the east, and the horse In the heart of the east
wns
the
to his barn a three-topped horse,
"C" Division Match
still $35,000 shy of the Sun Beau In a "C" Division League Tennis mark, while tears streaked the match at King's Park, Recreio "A" checks of Silent Tom Smith, the beat Kowloon Tong by the odd set in men whose heart was supposed to nine. be as hard as his horny hands.
A. M. Silva and J. C. Fonseca lost to E. Lee and L Chen 6-7, beat D, and (The next Chapter is the P. Chen 6-3, lost to M. S. and S. K. final ОПС of Seabiscuit's Lee 4-8.
I. F. Gonsalves and A. E. Noronha career-his winning of the beat Lee and Chan 7-3, lost to Chens Santa Anita Handicap and 4-6, beat Lees 0-4,
HA-Noronha-and-- G:“A” Noronha his creating a record for beat Lee and Chen 3, lost to Chens earnings).
14-4, beat Lees 6-1.
CHARITY WORKER NEARLY
Sea Biscuit's Career
Bought By C.S. Howard- Wins 11 Of 15 Races Becomes Handicap King
(Second Chapter)
By Jack Guenther
ARCADIA, Cal, (UP).-The life of the cham- pion actually began at four.
Seabiscuit ran for two years under the banner of the Wheatley stable in Florida, Maryland, Now York, Mas- sachusetts and Rhode Island and he ran at many tracks. But while he ran 47 races he won only nine of his starts, so he was sold to C. S. Howard with no regrets. He was simply cast off because his owners didn't believe he was good enough to carn his hay in a first class barn.
There was no one to see the
He come up from eighth to Biscuit off when the man known
second and then he went to the front. The margla as Silent Tom Smith. led him
WAS five lengths breezing at the end, and through the tree-lined walks of the ilme was 1:36 flat-one of the Saratoga and placed him on a best mile marks of the year. freight car for the first time and belter horses. When he possed Up and up he went, against better but there was something his fourth birthday on Jan, 1, 1937, symbolic about the departure, he had won five of 11 races under For on that day the Biscuit be- Pollard's gnarled hands, and when gan his climb, and on dozens of he was unloaded at Santa Anita occasions in the years to come Park for the first time he was on his Smith led him on dozens of cars
way to fame. and sent him thousands of miles along the long, winding road that finally carried him to the top of them all.
He won, then he lost, but on Feb, 27 he went against Rosemont In the $100,000 Santa Anita Indi- cap. In its richest race in the world, the Blacuit's reputation was made.
They shipped first to Detroit, and Seabiscuit was given to Johnny
"Hard Luck Kid” Pollard, a thin, nervous jockey with
Seabiscuit fuming red hair.
and HE rolled, that sunry February Pollard carried the rustling red and day, and when the swipes gather white Howard silks on a track the around the barns in the gloom of first time on August 22 and they evening they'll tell you, even now finished fourth behind some things that if Red Pollard had stuck a rear. named Myrtlewood, Prof. Paul and view mirror on the Biscuit's car Cristrate.
Rosemont would never have cought
A week later they came in third him on that final lunge to the wice. and finally, on Sept. 26, 1935, the But catch him he did, in the very Biscuit won his first stake race-lust stride. The Biscult missed by a nose. The parade was on $90,000 by the margin of a postage and it wasn't to end until the stamp, und gained the name of the name of Seablicult became
"Hard Luck Kid."" familiar as that of Jack Dempsey.
Proved Himself
TROM Detroit they went to River
Wherever he went thereafter they
tried to make his job harder. They gave him 124 pounds, 126 and 129 but he wouldn't slow down. They gave him 130 and Downs, then back to New York. 133 and he laughed in their faces. Finally they began the long trip He travelled by train and be West and in his first race at Bay travelled in his private car-through Meadows, Seabiscuit proved himself Tantoran, Bay Meadows, Aqueduct, one hundred per cent horse. He was Empire, Suffolk Downs, Narragon- left dat at the post, but the little sett, Jamaica, Laurel, and Pimlico- grandson of Man-Olarand. Whisk until his crimson blanket-became-the- Broom did not let his ancestors symbol of courage on the tracks. down.
Wherever he went he left new track records to remember him by.
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the year acclaimed as handicap king. Kowloon Depot.
He had won 11 of 15 starts against A the best thoroughbreds of the year and he had earned $168,500 for the season. This gave him a life mark of more than $210,000 and he skipped" up past Crusader, Discovery, Whichone, Colin, Morvich, Rosemont, Omaha, Pompey and other greats on the, money ladder.
So it was on his fifth birthday that racing men began talking of the Son Beau mark. They have talked of litle else since.
(Next Chapter tells of Seabiscuit's second defeat in the Santa Aniis Handicap, but also of his great win | over. War Admiral).
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