Seabiscuit , An American Legend

By Laura Hillenbrand




 In the year 1938 the biggest star, comparable to modern day Justin Bieber, was not even a person! He was a race horse named Seabiscuit. At the peak of his career he had more newspaper articles written about him then did world leaders of the time. Theodore Roosevelt ranked second, Hitler ranked third, and Mousilini fourth.
 Seabiscuit was born a 'homely' little horse. His trainer never thought that this lazy bones would ever amount to much, but a man named Smith who worked for a millionaire[named Howard] thought other wise. He saw what no other man had noticed, a glimmer of intelligence and knowledge in Seabiscuit's eyes, and a dormant desire to run.
 Seabiscuit had been over-worked as a young horse, racing in about forty races, more then most horses race in their lives! Howard and Smith bought Seabiscuit at a low price. Being over-worked had done nothing for Seabiscuit's temper. he was known to attack stable-hands!  After three months of training Seabiscuit was a completely different horse.
 Struggling through injuries that promised to be fatal, Seabiscuit fought his way to the top to become America's most legendary icon.

This book is an inspiring work that shows you: It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like. If you have a passion for what you do and believe in yourself anything can happen.

This book is recomended for 10th grade and up.