The Four-Hundred-Thousand-Dollar Horse
... SEABISCUIT, an old bay horse with rheumaticky legs, emerging from retirement at stud, wins the 100,000 dollar Santa Anita Handicap, one of America's richest races, and becomes the biggest money-making horse in racing history, with a total of 437,730 dollars nearly 110,000 in six years. The win stirred America, for only 18 months ago Seabiscuit's legs had broken down. But Mr. C. S. Howard, his ...