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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Red_PollardRed Pollard - Wikipedia

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   Santa Anita Handicap (1940) Honours. Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1982) Significant horses. Gallant Sir, Pompoon, Seabiscuit. 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 ...

   • Died: March 7, 1981 (aged 71), Pawtucket, Rhode Island

   • Occupation: Jockey

2. www.pbs.org › seabiscuit-biography-red-pollardRed Pollard | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

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   The highlight of Pollard’s racing career came in 1940, when he rode Seabiscuit to victory in the race that had twice eluded the horse, the Santa Anita Handicap. “I got a great ride,” Pollard ...

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   What happened to Seabiscuit & Pollard?

   • Seabiscuit was retired almost immediately after the race, and Pollard soon did the same. But he couldn’t stay away from the jockey’s life for long. He soon returned to the racing circuit, and was twice hospitalized after terrible accidents — he broke a hip in one spill and his back in another.

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   Was Seabiscuit the luckiest day of Pollard's life?

   • It might have been the luckiest day of Pollard’s life. 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 celebrated thoroughbred more than once.

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   What happened to red & Seabiscuit?

   • 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 celebrated thoroughbred more than once. In February 1938, he was almost crushed to death in a horse pile-up at the San Carlos Handicap.

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   How much did Seabiscuit & Pollard win?

   • Improvements came quickly, and in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including the Detroit Governor's Handicap (worth $5,600) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($7,300) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York . In early November 1936, Howard and Smith shipped the horse to California by rail.

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   Biography: Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. From 1936 to 1940, Americans thronged to racetracks to watch the small, ungainly racehorse ...

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   In 1927, Pollard was sold — young jockeys were considered property — to a horseman named Freddie Johnson, who handed him over to his trainer, Russ McGirr. Although Red was still losing far more often than he won, McGirr discovered a rare talent in the boy that would help carry him into racing history.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SeabiscuitSeabiscuit - Wikipedia

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   Seabiscuit with Red Pollard. In 1938, as a five-year-old, Seabiscuit's success continued. On February 19, Pollard suffered a terrible fall while racing on Fair Knightess, another of Howard's horses. With half of Pollard's chest caved in by the weight of the fallen horse, Howard had to find a new jockey.

   • Dam: Swing On
   • Grandsire: Man o' War

   • Damsire: Whisk Broom II
   • Sire: Hard Tack

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   May 10, 2024 · Legendary horse Seabiscuit, with jockey Red Pollard, at the Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 1938. (more) Seabiscuit , (foaled 1933), American racehorse ( Thoroughbred ) that in six seasons (1935–40) won 33 of 89 races and a total of $437,730, a record for American Thoroughbreds (broken 1942).

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10. www.racingmuseum.org › horse › seabiscuit-kySeabiscuit (KY) | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

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    With Smith, Howard, and new regular rider Johnny “Red” Pollard, things began to fall into place. Seabiscuit began to improve, winning the Governor’s Handicap, Hendrie Handicap, Scarsdale Handicap, Bay Bridge Handicap (setting a track record), and World’s Fair Handicap (another track record) by the end of 1936.