Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit, with jockey Johnny "Red" Pollard, approaches the finish line beating Sir Emerson, second, and Time Supply, third, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Feb. 9, 1937. Rosemont, the favorite, crossed the line fifth.

Seabiscuit leads Aneroid by a nose to win the Brooklyn Handicap at the Aquaduct race track in New York City on June 26, 1937. The story of the mud-colored horse with knobby knees who became a champion captured the nation's imagination during the gloomy days of the Great Depression. A recent best seller and movie have led to a newfound fascination in the horse's tale.

Seabiscuit, wearing the victory flower garland, is shown with jockey Johnny "Red" Pollard after winning the $51,780 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Mass., on Aug. 7, 1937.

American thoroughbred racing horse Seabiscuit and trainer Tom Smith are shown together on Dec. 22, 1937, at an unknown location.

American racehorse Seabiscuit nibbles on the hand of owner Charles S. Howard at the Santa Anita stable at Arcadia, near Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 10, 1938.

Seabiscuit leads to victory over Gosum in the $15,000 Bay Meadows Handicap in San Mateo, Calif. on April 16, 1938. Seabiscuit set a new track record with 1:49.

American racehorse Seabiscuit and jockey Johnny "Red" Pollard are shown at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on May 4, 1938. "This is horse racing's equivalent of 'Rocky,' but Rocky with horseshoes," said Keith Chamblin, a spokesman for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in Lexington, Ky.

Seabiscuit, with jockey George Woolf up, is led by trainer Tom Smith and escorted by police after defeating War Admiral in the match race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 1, 1938.

Seabiscuit and jockey George Woolf lead War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger in the first turn at the race at Pimlico in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 1, 1938. Seabiscuit won and set a new track record.

Owner Charles S. Howard congratulates jockey Johnny "Red" Pollard in the winner's circle after his horse Seabiscuit won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Feb. 24, 1940. Standing by the head of the horse is trainer Tom Smith, with binoculars.

Retired racehorse Seabiscuit is led by owner Charles Howard in front of a lifesize bronze statue of the thoroughbred by sculptor Hulette "Tex" Wheeler, left, in the east grandstand gardens at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Feb. 5, 1941. Seabiscuit died of a heart attack five years later.