What un incredible horse....

Coincidentally both Seabiscuit and popcorn deelites were friends and stable mates with horses who looked identical to them.

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That's a hell of a life for a horse.

Awesome horse!

“So long Charlie!”

Yes! And the, "Not long now, Pops" gets me too!

I 100% agree with you!!! What I really would love to know if the Jockey really did say that? War Admiral was being toyed with.

Absolutely powerful scene! Chris Cooper is absolutely the greatest actor in Hollywood.

Seriously?! I thought I was the only one who felt that energy like that with those words. It was surreal to hear it with the music and the will of the horses moving like that. I completed a MA that researched the connection of kinesthetics and theology and spirituality. That "inner Seabiscuit" needs to be turned loose if we want to separate ourselves from the pack. "Turn him loose!"

This was nominated for best picture the year is was released, so it actually got plenty of well deserved praise.

Come on Biscuit …..

Ya brilliantly done

Jeepers creepers. I agree with all u say here. Yes it got really great reviews of praise but this story is truly something and we'll told in this movie. I'm a horse lover and Bout all kinds but not fan of racing but there are a few really GREAT horses racing through the years that are so VERY SPECIAL they each got to have that story told. Man of war, secretariat Ruffian, each unique story and this pint size GIANT of the racetrack. Yeah and this race portrayed brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it like movie with Secretariat doing the impossible at Belmont. And each jockey too. Secretariat s jockey interviews he said let's see what u got and later said secretariat was always God's steed and God came down and said now I'm gonna show all of you how to win a race. Turcote said I was just blessed to be on top that day to enjoy the ride. Great horses all.

Watch the real recording of this race. It's beautiful

I know who wins and that race is still tense.

Rachel, me too. I watch this clip several times a year and it happens to me every time!

exciting!!!

Try the book its hair raising. The whole thing

Thanks for the stats! So thrilling. Love SB!

How would they study his DNA? He died so long ago, before DNA tests. That part about him sleeping so much is part of Laura's storyteller make believe, it's only a novel.

When Secretariat died they also found his heart was much larger than average.

@@deniseeulert2503 Same with Seabiscuit, they both had hearts that were at least double the average size for a horse. (I think Secretariat's might have been even bigger than that, haven't seen the exact stats).

@@stevek8829 same thoughts. How could any DNA testing be done on SB?

So, WA reached his peak just a year prior to the match, and SB reached *his* WITH the match.

@@57highland You could argue they both were at their peaks here. Seabiscuit broke the track record for the mile and 3/16 in this race, and War Admiral ran his personal best time for that distance. That's part of what was so great about this race. Neither horse caught the other on a bad day, neither had something go wrong to spark "if only" speculation. This was a battle of two titans where they both lived up to their billing - two great horses went head to head, both showed their greatness, and people got to see which one was that little bit better.

Yes, yes it is... timing is everything... so it seems

@@Wolfeson28 I like that description, Battle of Two Titans

​@@Wolfeson28 perfectly said

I'm English pal but I fucking luv American movies, know1 even comes close.

Amen to that.

Amen to that.

The truth is War Admiral wasn't that large at all. He and Seabiscuit were actually damn near the same size...

@@miked501 it’s obvious your a Britt

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What an incredible story! Thank you for sharing this. Wow, this made it a full circle for you and your family. So cool. My mom would tell me that my Grandpa remembered listening to this race. I think he got out of school early to tune in. He did said business closed for the day to listen in. The excitement of this race meant so much to the American public. Especially during the depression. Seabiscuit was their horse to root for 🙂. The little horse who could!

That is so cool!

Wow thats a cool story

Thank you for sharing your fascinating story! Wow!🐎🐴⚘

Absolutely agree

Some of the 'staging' - including the crowd running across the infield - exactly matched the actual footage of the race

This and Secretariat. Could watch these movies endlessly. Too bad Disney has gone to shit

Not to mention that George was played by real life Hall of Fame jockey, Gary Stevens.

Agree 100%

Was the book from Scholastic books "Come on Seabiscuit?" I loved that book. I read it so much my copy was so worn I bought another copy on ebay.. I even wrote the author when I was in fifth grade and he answered me. I still have his letter.

Actually it was. Loved that book. And when Breyer came out with the stablemate series of horses, they had a Seabiscuit. I bought it. Still have it too.

​@@janehull5623 I found that book at the Bryn Mawr bookshop at 79th and York in a basement (it raised money for the university). Cost me a quarter, loved it.

Fun fact: That probably wasn't a shot of the real horses... For close up shots they were afraid of spooking the horses and couldn't do zoom in shots yet, they rigged it so a truck would drag mechanical horses on a flatbed while the jockeys rode on the mechanical horses for all the close up shots. The jockeys sometimes even wore shorts in the clips because they weren't riding real horses.

Sara Nightfire Gay fact!!!!!

Definite movie Magic here. But, not in a bad way. The close-ups of the jockeys are obviously too clean to be real, I think in reality their backs slumped over in the riding position would be all over the place with all the emotion, but I really enjoy the cinematography of the background, how it makes the horses in the foreground look very fast.

@@SaraNightfire1 how the f*** would you know? Hollywood has to reenact it dumbass. I bet you're a really exciting person to watch a movie with aren't you? Not.

@@edwardmcdowell3001 Hey dumbass. Have you ever heard of behind the scenes DVD extras? That’s how I know. I also don’t mention it during a movie. I just thought it was interesting. If you think it’s stupid sharing facts, then I pity you and your life of knowledge lost. Also, are you five? Your vocabulary and insults reach around that age.

Like that old saying : " It's not the size of the man in the fight as it's the size the fight in the man."

In Australia there was a horse named Octagonal, when it ran, and won, you would think it knew where the finish was

Seabuiscuit was a very special horse...once in a lifetime.

Wasn't he used to train other's let them to build their confidence,in turn he became loser

Yes so tru

He's like, 'Let's do this.'

maninthebox0 Seabiscuit is saying,” DUDE LEMME AT’EM!”

We got this! Let's go!

Horse knew the schedule!!when to go!!

I know and love that sound. maybe not nearly as fast, but a nice giddy up will do for me :) ps I just say NO to trotting. my god..who invented THAT!

:So long Charlie". Johnny was Red's name

Psychological warfare looking into your opponents eyes the Biscuit is full of it poor Admiral he did not know what to do when Seabiscuit watched him in the eyes

That's an excellent explanation. I always wondered if he's in the lead just stay in the lead I never considered it gave him a breather for the final stretch.

@@kroxxy123 Apparently Biscuit used to get bored in races as he was so fast and faded at the end, letting War Admiral catch him let him see the competition, stopping him losing interest. Not sure if that’s 100% true but I’ve seen it mentioned a lot regarding the race!

@@bc680 I think you're right. I've heard something like that too

Yeah or just horse A was better on that day then Horse B. I mean, if what you're saying is true (which is a big assumption), it could just as easily have gone tits up by burning himself out early and then giving it up to a faster horse on a shorter track.

@@americankulak2294 Have you read books on Seabiscuit or seen the movie? They pulled out all the stops to win that race. Worked out every advantage they could. That can make or break a race. It goes without saying that there's no guarantee and, of course, any 'given horse' can win on 'any give day'. Duhh

There was a pretty decent horse named, "R Thomas" in the 60's!

The untold ending to.that part of the story was that they say that War Admiral was never quite the same after he came out of that race. It changed him so in his personality that he never performed w/the same kind of ferocity he had displayed up until this race. Although he still went on to notch more wins, he was a classic example of what the horsemen on the back side mean when they talk abt how "...he got his heart broke...".

We kinda do with Tiz The Law

Agreed

@@GothicThylacine Or even Swiss Skydiver now XD She's got just as much heart, she's raced the hardest of any horse this year, and then she still managed to give it her all in the Preakness. Really made me happy seeing an old school horse like her win it and it made me a little happier about this whole year. =)

AMEN

We got Biden instead smfh

I kinda liked,come on biscuit

Agreed

Made an iMovie of favorite movie scenes, including best quotes. 161 made the list. And yes, “So long, Charlie!” Is in there!

The horse neighing letting him know its time to go tho

corldadecavato

look up Sargent Reckless... not a race horse... but probably the greatest horse that lived...respond if you agree. :)

@@jordanhefley7365 I want to see the horse sergeant restless

@@jordanhefley7365 I want to see Sargeant Restless

What about hedalgo (idk how to spell it correct me if I’m wrong) but that horse was just ✨

Also, Citation, American Pharoah, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Alydar, Spectacular Bid, Whirlaway, Justify, Alysheba, Swaps, Nashua, Silver Charm, Smarty Jones, Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra, California Chrome, and Justify......just to name a few! There are MANY more, but these GREAT Racehorses, are forever etched in my mind!😍 Secretariat, however, will ALWAYS be my FAVORITE!!!😚

musician here - the music is well-written and performed and is a big reason for the emotional tidal wave....

@@imuawarriors Who would have thought that Randy Newman could have composed that remarkable score!!!

I do too!!! I cant figure it out!!!

I have never been a horse person, but Biscuit stole my heart. The little horse that could. God bless you SeaBiscuit. ^^

Same here

They used $5,000 claimers to play the champions.

Actually, no. It made a great scene for the movie(good old Hollywood license), but Seabiscuit was actuall never less than third in the race.

The real clip of the race shows George whipping Biscuit 4 or 5 times to get him to bolt away from War Admiral like he did at the end. They didn't show any whipping here and I'm not surprised. Whips back then could really injure a horse.

@@dii392 Umm... before, if you read Who Was Seabiscuit, you will see that he only won 1/7 of his games in the beginning.

@@vanessazhang1003 I don't if my comment got turned around or something but I was replying to someone who posted about the Santa Anita race. The movie had Seabiscuit coming from way behind, but he was actually never less than third in that race.

He was actually in 2 Academy nominated films that year “ Seabiscuit” and “American Beauty”. How the Academy chose the depressing American Beauty for Best Picture over the uplifting Seabiscuit is beyond me!!

Chris McCarron was the jockey stunt coordinator for this movie. When you read the credits you’ll recognize a lot of names

Whale yeah :)

Dynamite comes in small packages! Nobody thought Hidalgo could win the distance race across the Arabian desert, but he,a little gutsy mustang, did it. Yep, the Biscuit was one of the great ones!🐎👍

As far as sports related movies, this has to be one of the most accurate I’ve seen - except for two things: War Admiral is depicted as being so much bigger and more powerful than Seabiscuit when in fact they were very similar in size. The other problem I had was how they depicted the Santa Anita Handicap - In the movie Seabiscuit was shown at the back of the field, struggling and having to catch up when in the real race he was never further back than 3rd or 4th.

@@rickbateman2401 Yeah, everyone seems to forget Admiral was not built like his father. Biscuit was the exact same size. Both were 15'2 hands tall.

@@jeffwasher355 Biscuit was a small racehorse which helped because the racing breeds and horses are typically small and fast.

@@bashali696 that's not the point I was making. What I was saying is in the movie they made War Admiral out to be this huge horse when he wasn't. Him and Biscuit were THE EXACT SAME SIZE.

@@jeffwasher355 I saw your point. I was only saying how Biscuit’s build helped him. He was only a hand bigger than a pony.

omg my feelings are now in words😂😂

I think in the actual race clips you can watch after he wins he turns and yells "Loser" to the jockey riding War Admiral behind him.

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yea I always forget I'm watching a movie. Which is the mark of good movie making!

Cheryl Lynne We the public are STARVING for good stories told well. Its understood that the cost of making 'A' list features has skyrocketed. And that's the reason for all the fanboy fare that has built-in audiences. But a great story, is still a great story. Fanboy movie fatigue is setting in. The gutless Hollywood execs should start growing a pair and go back to telling the great stories. Stories that will reward them handsomely from a VERY grateful moviegoing public.

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😂🤣 I love it !

He drank that beer and promptly went out and spanked the triple crown winner. Seabiscuit was a scrub,undersized,lazy,broken down,angry cart pony. Until he wasn't.

Ironically all the money was on War Admiral so most of the people there thought Seabiscuit didn't have a chance which is my, today, we say "that really takes the biscuit"!

Horses race in the wild. All animals do. It's part of playfighting and teaching each other how to deal with predators.

Young horses in the field will make an effort to lead the group same as children.

Yeah, that’s what happens when you learn about animals from movies...

Most people don't realize it but horses actually know if they won or not. I don't think it is that they understand it the way that we do. They just know that when they are the one in the lead of "the herd" they get treated differently. I groomed a colt once that actually sulked for 3 days after he lost a race. He knew he didn't win because he didn't get the special treatment.

no...you are not!!

Shane Bowman No I did too

I am no racing expert,but after watching the real race,the timing of GW seems perfect.And yes,truly emotional.

George Monroe Woolf was one of the best jockeys ever. He'd already ridden Seabiscuit quite a bit in 1938 due to injuries sustained by Red Pollard. Woolf had been aboard Seabiscuit in the 1938 running of the Santa Anita Handicap, which they lost in large part due to an early foul, and had ridden him to victory in the 1938 Hollywood Gold Cup, which they won despite being 14 lengths back in the early going. So Woolf was not unfamiliar with Seabiscuit's running characteristics. Seabiscuit was typically a pace stalker, who ran with the pack or just off the leaders, counting on a late burst of speed to win. This style suited Woolf, who was an intense student of horse racing, his rival jockeys, and their mounts, and who knew the weaknesses of his opposition and how to exploit them. In the match race, however, Smith and Woolf trained Seabiscuit to run contrary to his normal form: instead of counting on him to stalk War Admiral, he was trained to break quickly and to out-sprint his uncle (oh, yes - War Admiral was Seabiscuit's uncle :-) to the first turn. Smith was aware that in races started from a walk-up the first horse to the first turn had a psychological advantage. Then, too, War Admiral - who was a notoriously fast breaker - was accustomed to leading throughout his races and not used to seeing the any horse ahead of him. Besides his well-known affiliation with Seabiscuit, Woolf also was the winning jockey in the first Santa Anita Handicap, aboard Azucar; won the 1936 Preakness aboard Bold Venture; and finished second in the Kentucky Derby twice. Sadly, Woolf died in 1946 due to injuries sustained in a fall during a race. Woolf had type I diabetes, and supposition is that he passed out in the saddle due to his disease.

Shane Bowman tears peeps tears

Secretariat is the Greatest of all time...no other horse beat any horse by 31 lengths my top 5 are Secretariat then Seabiscuit then Zenyatta Citation then Ruffian.. what is yours?

Secretariat, Man o War, Seabiscuit and yes War Admiral. Seabiscuit was truly a great horse. He had a lot of quirks.

Lotta folks feel Man o War is even greater than Secretariat. That didn't make sense to me until I learned that Man o War often ran with extra weight so other horse could have a chance to win. Crazy stuff. Also, Man o War wore steel shoes. Secretariat wore aluminum shoes. BUT I still believe Secretariat is the greatest.

@@sherylejeffers9491 some horse won by 40 something. I forget his name though or what race it was it.

Secretariat and Man O'War were both outstanding horses, but they did not have the same levels of adversity to overcome that Seabiscuit had. They were the Gold Standard of physical perfection. They were treated like royalty. Seabiscuit had EVERYTHING against him--less-than-perfect conformation, early trainers that abused and overworked him, not understanding his complex personality. To sustain a severe leg injury, recover, and then go on to win the race at Santa Anita--THAT is a truly outstanding horse. His sheer indomitable spirit makes him stand out from the rest. He may not have the fastest track record, or the greatest number of wins, but in my book, he is the greatest race horse in racing history.

Don’t forget ruffian😭

@@evahmr2252 Her last race still hurts me to this day

@@shadowwalker9450 irk😭😭

And justify to mention!

And raffian

LOL Love it!!

They are out there Gale, By the Million all over the world but we have allowed the rich and power mad to become vicious and keep us ignorant of them.

More true to Seabiscuit's story than Disney's Secretariat....

Great memory to share. Thanks a lot.

I loved Seabiscuit too. ❤❤❤

How did Mr. Woolf die?

@@57highland He was riding a horse called Please Me at Santa Anita Park. On the first turn, he suddenly fell off the horse. He hit the ground with so much force that he suffered a fatal concussion and passed away the following day.

It's nice to know that "Georgie" had a moment of true glory before such a tragic accident. One of my favorite lines in this film was near the beginning, when George looked at Red in the starting gate and said, "He's a little small, isn't he?" And Red answered, "He's gonna look a lot smaller in a few minutes, Georgie!" My father was a big fan of Gary Stevens.

@@57highland was google too difficult?

@@57highland he won plenty of more important races than a staged event match race.