Seabiscuit

So I am having a little bit of a Seabiscuit binge, reading the newest book and watching the movie. But- I remember as a kid reading an early book, Come on Seabiscuit, which told the story in such a gripping way that I remember it these years on.

I am learning information I never really knew before-- or it just did not register. Like Seabiscuit standing at stud!

In thinking about the popularity of this horse, with his connections, who all had a tale to tell out of the ordinary-- to what extent is that the reason for the popularity of CC? Is CC a sort of modern day Seabiscuit, more glamorous in looks perhaps but still with the questionable conformation, with the unconventional connections that somehow fired popular affection and imagination?

Does anyone know what became of the Seabiscuit progeny?

Is there a newer book than Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit?
I loved that book–I may have loved Unbroken more.
The thing I took away from her Seabiscuit story was the lives of the jockies! I know it was a novel and it was set in an entirely different time, but I found their lives rather appalling!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0FxmbK_qco

This is a real gem-- a contemporary documentary about Seabiscuit, circa 1939.
Hillenbrand’s book was not a novel-- it is factual-- and highly researched. Her description of searching archives and getting access to personal papers is fascinating in itself at the end of the book.
Jockeys lives did sound really hard. I don’t know how much of that is just the slant she developed, as part of her story line, versus it was that hard across the board.
Although, that said, working off my memory, Hillenbrand had interviews with Red Pollard’s daughter so she was getting a very close to first hand account of the way it was. And here is some interesting information on Norah Pollard, the daughter.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/144036/inside-track-pollards-visions

There was actually a documentary about jockies that isn’t that old, a few years? And their lives are still pretty appalling.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390144/

I guess it’s older than I thought (2004) but definitely worth watching.