One lowering day last week, 20,000 racing fans surged through the gates of California's Santa Anita Park. Rain or shine, they had come to pay homage to a beloved little horse, eight-year-old Seabiscuit, returning to the scene of his greatest triumph after nine months at stud.
California railbirds like to think of the Kentucky-bred Biscuit as their own. They like to tell how the lazy little grandson of Man o' War, racing in the East as a two-year-old, failed to win a race in his first 18 starts. But after California's Charles S. Howard bought...
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