Seabiscuit was not a mustang

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2007)

Seabiscuit wasn't a mustang, he was a thoroughbred. His dad was Hartack, hence his name. If you recall, he was shown on a horse farm and the manager said, "get rid of him: Legendary trainer Jim Fitzsimmons would not take a mustang under his wing. I seem to recall reading elsewhere that "Sunny Jim" said that the way her treated Seabiscuit was the one thing he would like to do over, if he could. That is kind of like Phillie Scout Red Murph telling the team that a left-handed pitching from a small town in Louisiana was not tall enough to make the major league. "At that time," Murph said in later years, "I thought a left-handed pitcher had to be at least 6-2 to make it in the majors." The Phillies took Murph's advice and let the Oakland A's draft Vida Blue, who was only 5-10, and the rest is history. It was a really lovely movie. I think it was cool that real jockeys played parts in the movie. I only wish that the movie had followed the book to the end and told the rest of the story about how Seabiscuit was buried on Howard's farm under a tree and than no one really knows where the grave is located.