Word: seabiscuit
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Originally from the stable of the late C. S. Howard, Country Boy is the result of a mistaken mating between Howard's personal riding horse, a half thoroughbred and half Morgan, and an Irish steeplechaser, originally imported to be bred to Seabiscuit...
Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...
...package was 3 Ibs. less than Two Lea's and 14 less than Ponder's) had run the mile-and-a-quarter in two minutes flat-just a fifth of a second off the world record and 1⅓ seconds faster than the track record set by Seabiscuit in the same race ten years...
...horse on a tip from Prince Aly Khan, Noor's victory was worth $97,900. It was the third time in 13 runnings of the big race that Howard had taken the grand prize; in 1939 he won with an Argentine horse named Kayak II, in 1940 with Seabiscuit...