The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
SEABISCUIT NOW BEST HORSE ON AMERICAN TURF Broke Track Record in Beating War Admiral
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RY HENRY MoLEMoRE

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 United Press Stan Correspondent
 Baltimore, Md, Nov. 2-(UP)- Seabiscuit, the cast-off son of { cheaply held father, today stood ,iil. challenged as Americas greatest ract horse.
 Sold by the Wheatley stable thre, years ago because he had bad knet and was thought to be through, the bay son of Hard Tack banged down the stretch at Pinlico yesterday to beat War Admiral by four lengths and become supreme in this country
 Bargain De Luxe
 Charlie Howard bought Seabiscuit from Ogden Mills in August, 1885 The price was $7,5OO. Counting the $l5,000 first money in yesterdays match race Seabiscuit has banked more than $34O, GOO for Howard, and now only Sun Beau stands between him and the honor of being the greatest money winner in American turf history.
 Not bad for a cast-off. Not bad for the son of a sire who, up until a year ago, was SO lightly regarded that his stud fee was Q fraction of that asked for Gallant Fox, Sir Gallahad 3rd, Reign Count, and other stallionS on A. B. Hancock's great farm at Clai- borne, Ky. A failure as racer, Hard Tack was scarcely noticed by the thousands of visitors who streamed in and out of Claiborne in 1896 for 8 glimpse of its illustrious sires.
 But they'll start looking at him now, because in SeabiScuit he has produced horse which even if he re- tired today, would stand with the iminortals of the turf. The Biscuit has the two essentials of greatness speed and stamina. He has them in abundance as he proved in the match due with War Admiral when he shaved a fifth of a second of the track record.
 In War Amiral he faced a "scat" starter, a horse that fairly bullets from the barrier, takes the lead and keeps dust in the eyes of his cllal- 1GIlSGTS-uSua1ky.
 But the Admiral had never before stood side by side at the barrier with the Biscuit. And to everybody's sur- prise -- everybody's except Jockey Georgie Woolf's-it was Seabiscuit who broke first, broke like fright ened thing, winging away with a burst of speed that put him in front by length before the three-six- teenths pole was reached.
 Neck And Neck
 He never was behind, though he did not lead all the way. For half a inile-from 8 point in the back stretch to the top of the stretch War Admiral looked him in the eye and ran as close to him was the minute hand to the hour hand at twelve noon. It was in this run, side by side, that Seabiscuit proved his superiority over the Admiral. Be- cause when the two horses came out of this gripping drive at the top of the stretch and leveled of for home, Seabiscuit had enough left to carry on, to barrel it down to the wire. War Admiral didn't.
 Spent and disheartened b,, his in- ability to shake off the Biscuit at close quarters, the chunky little son of Man O War faded, and was uri- able to lift himself for a final charge despite a terrific whipping from the bat of Charley Kurtsinger.
 The Admiral wasn't disgraced, mind you. He made a mighty fight for it, 8 brilliant fight; and the re- suit was a race that left 10000 spec tators limp with hysterical excite ment.
 It was perfectly run race, with Kurrsinger saying at the, finish that he had no excuses to make. The weather was flawless, and SO was the track. It took the two rivals long time to get together but when they did 1t was under ideal conditions and the better horse won.