The Seabiscuit Story: From the Pages of the Nation's Most Prominent Racing Magazine

by John McEvoy (Editor)

The rags-to-riches story of 1930s hero Seabiscuit from the pages of the respected horse racing magazine, The Blood-Horse. With actual accounts and original photos of Seabiscuit's rise to fame from his first victory to the coast-to-coast victories that made him an icon during the darkest years of the American Depression.

Genres: Horses, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2003

About the author

John McEvoy, former editor and senior correspondent for Daily Racing Form, is the author of five non-fiction books on thorougbred horse racing, including the award-winning Great Horse Racing Mysteries. Photo Finish is his fifth mystery novel and fourth featuring the adventurous Jack Doyle. One of McEvoy's earlier novels, Riders Down, won a Ben Franklin Award. He and his wife Judy live in Evanston, Illinois.

Reviews

[Bonnie Staughton · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The Seabiscuit Story" is a compilation of articles that appeared in "The Blood Horse" magazine. Though my passion is horses and I had seen the Seabiscuit movie, I was afraid this book would be rather "dry". But I was so wrong. When you read about the races that Seabiscuit was in, the reporters made visions of the track and the actual race appear in your head--or at least it did mine. The story of Seabiscuit's life is a very interesting one and this encompasses the owners, Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Howard, the jockeys, Red Pollard & George Wolf and the trainer, Tom Smith. I even learned some things about Seabiscuit that I hadn't known before.