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Clinton 2022-01-04 08:01:02
In the 1930s, the United States was in the shadow of the Great Depression, and the story began at this time. this is a true story. Charles Howard used to be a bicycle mechanic and made money by introducing cars to the western United States. He bought a small horse named seabiscuit, which translates directly to mean sea biscuit. Howard formed a team with the semi-blind former boxing champion Reid Pollard and Tom Smith, a former performer, to train his little horse racing. Pollard was the jockey and Smith was the trainer. Ocean Biscuit and its three-person team began a legendary journey, and the life of the three people has since changed. Before that, the three of them all appeared to be losers in life for their own reasons, abandoned by family and friends, unable to realize their ideals. Howard made his fortune from a car deal, but his son was killed in a traffic accident, and his wife asked for a divorce; Pollard had been a hobby of horseback riding, and his family let him wander around after losing everything; Smith was a cowboy who could tame any wild horses. , But also wandering everywhere, with nowhere to go. Their horse ocean biscuits also resemble their owners, they are losers in horse racing. Not only are they smaller than ordinary horses, they also seem to have problems with their legs. But when the three people started training this hopeless horse, the persistence of both the man and the horse was revealed. Their tenacity and victory brought hope to the entire country in that gloomy age.
Extended Reading
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George Woolf: [during the Match race, on the final stretch to War Admiral's jockey] So long, Charlie.
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Mrs. Pollard: You should be riding it. You knew the poem.
Mr. Pollard: Yeah, but he just looks so perfect out there, doesn't he?
Mrs. Pollard: Yeah.
Mr. Pollard: That's the poetry, Agnes. That's the poetry