The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-04
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TODAY'S SPORT
 PARADE
BY HENRY McLEMORE United Press Stan CoFrespondentl

United Press stan COrrespOndentl
 Los Angeles, March 4.-(UP)-A game-legged horse with a heart to match was king of the turf today.
 His story is the racing equivalent of the ugly Duckling," and the final chapter of 1t was written in the run down the stretch at Santa Anita Sat- urday Afternoon.
 It was then and there that Seabis- cult, who once had price of only e2,500 on his head, pounded from the dust into the clear and began erasing Sun Beau's name from the books as the greatest money winner of all time.
 He wasn't made to do 1t.
 Likes to Run
 The little gnome of a fellow on his back didn't touch him with the whip. He just sat there, a passenger, as one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time did what he best likes to do run.
 The crippled legs that forced him into retirement for a year might have been hurting him, and the burden on his back might have been heavy, but you never would have known it.. He crossed the finish line, driving and driving away, and the dust he threw back was literally gold dust. Because the $S6,650 that went with his victory in the Handicap sent the Biscuits all time earning to $437,- 730. Sun Beau's record was $376, ,744.
 This reporter has seen many denl- onstrations in his time, for kings and presidents, athletic champions and war heroes, but never has he seen such an ovation as the one rendered the tough old campaigner, Seabis- cult, when he logged back down the track after the finish and made his way into the unsaddling ring.
 A crowd that was variously esti- mated at between 75,000 and 80,000 roared, yelled, laughed, cried, sang and shouted for fully five minutes. Not until the Biscuit, wrapped in the faded blanket that has warmed him after victories on almost every track in this country, disappeared from sight, headed for his satble, did the ovation end.
 Part of the rousing salute was di- rected toward Jockey Johnny Pol- lard. It must have been, because this red headed little gamecock deserved 1t. Still in pain from @ leg injury he suffered in nasty fall two years ago, and in no condition to be in race, he gave Seabiscuit 8 magnificent ride. It was Pollard, cripple himself during Seabiscuit's retirement, who stayed with the Biscuit night and day, walked him, logged, petted him, and nursed him along until he was ready for racing once more.
 Almost Unbelievable
 All of these things-Seabiscuit's $ rise from an all but broken down two year old who sold for $7,50Q: his comeback aftera year away from the track; his two heart-breaking photo finish defeats in earlier handicaps; the faith and love of his jockey; the smashing climax to become the greatest money winner of them all all of these things combined to make the sixth race at Santa Anita Satur- day drama unequaled on the Amer ican turf.
 What will the Biscuit do now No l lrIA hN owner, Charles s. Howard. The chances are, however, that Seabiscuit right now as sound as he ever was in his life, will be kept in training and sent out for the Hollywood Gold Cup in the summer. Victory there where the purse is $5o,000, would lift his earnings to such @ figure that his name would lead them all for many, many years to come.