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Ah, Julie!  I love first-person accounts.  I read Walter Farley's book "Man O' War" and felt like I was there from foaling till death.

 

I'm a Big Red fan but any horse with heart catches my love as well. 

 

It's about TIME Hollywood makes a movie for us "Little Girls" at heart!

Marinera@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I am probably one of a very few on ridecamp (probably the only one actually) 
> who can remember being glued to the radio as Seabiscuit and War Admiral duked 
> it out. He was my hero and I plastered my bedroom wall with his pictures 
> from the sporting green of the San Francisco Chronicle. On Monday night when 
> they showed clips of him on television, I found my old scrapbook with his 
> pictures. An artist by the name of Howard Brodie drew wonderful charcoal 
> sketches of him and I wrote Mr. Brodie a letter and told him I wanted a 
> special picture of Seabiscuit for my bedroom wall. He kindly wrote back and 
> told me that girls my age should be studying their schoolbooks and not 
> gambling and horse racing. I have lost that letter, but still have all of 
> the sketches he drew which have commentaries under them. One in particular 
> shows Seabiscuit in the foreground and a huge lion in the background and 
> refers to the Bisc
> uit as "the horse with the heart of a lion, the mighty 
> fighter and gallant hero of western turf" When he was shipped east for the 
> match race against War Admiral I was sure something awful would happen to 
> him. The announcer on the radio was so excited that it times it was hard to 
> understand what he was saying, but it finally became clear that our local boy 
> triumphed. I walked on air for days.
> Julie Suhr
>
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Susan Young Casey, Princess of Pink; secretary, RRRSA
Semper Obliquo (Always aside)  

Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma U.S.A.

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if
 that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"         - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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