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John M. "Red" Pollard (October 27, 1909 – March 7, 1981) was a Canadian horse racing jockey. A founding member of the Jockeys' Guild in 1940, Pollard rode at racetracks in the United States and is best known for riding Seabiscuit.
After years of riding the worst mounts on the worst tracks in the racing circuit, Pollard had come to understand troubled horses. He was kind to them, avoiding the whip, and his mounts often ...
For a time, Pollard and Seabiscuit lit up the racing circuit, capturing win after win in races across the country. But the injuries that plagued Red throughout his career unseated him from the...
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Aug 11, 2003 · The real Red Pollard’s family lived in Canada and was hit hard by the depression. They got him a job at a racetrack while he was still young and from there he started drifting around as a jockey but he wasn’t really “abandoned” as such by his family he just left Canada.
Feb 9, 2017 · The following Facts about Red Pollard will talk about the famous horseracing jockey from Canada. He was born on 27th October 1909 and died on 7th March 1981. His full name is John M Pollard. He was known more as Red Pollard.
Red Pollard rode into American history, overcoming a physical disability of partial blindness, accepting intense physical pain caused by severe riding injuries that fractured his bones, while humbly accepting his role in racing history, as the man who rode Seabiscuit.
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Mar 1, 2015 · Johnny ‘Red’ Pollard (the Cougar) and George Monroe Woolf (the Iceman) were both from Canada. Red Pollard was born in November 1909 making him 30 at the time of Seabiscuit’s race into history.
