This feature originally appeared in the March 19, 2016 issue of Blood-Horse. Readers of The Blood-Horse through much of 1938, like all others interested in the Turf, were teased from time to time that ...

They rolled out the red carpet on Fourth Street in Louisville, Ky. Saturday night for the much-anticipated premiere of Seabiscuit at the palatial Palace Theater. The event was presented by Team Valor ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Michael Sweeney remembers plenty about Saratoga Race Course in the 1920s and 1930s. The lifelong horse racing fan worked at the storied track as a water boy for three years ...

Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. From 1936 to 1940, Americans thronged to racetracks to watch the small, ungainly racehorse become a champion. He had an ...

Nov. 1, 1938 - War Admiral, the 1937 Triple Crown winner, was the 1-4 favorite over Seabiscuit in their mile and three-sixteenths match race for $15,000 at Pimlico in Baltimore. The following is famed ...

No one can conjure up the era better than Laura Hillenbrand herself: “In 1938, near the end of a decade of monumental turmoil, the year’s number-one newsmaker was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hitler ...