John Pollard was born in 1909 and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, in the western reaches of the Canadian wilderness. The second of seven children born to a bankrupt Irish brick manufacturer, Johnny — as ...
Like the wounded nation that loved him, he was uncertain and half crippled. So in the depths of the Great Depression, when a knock-kneed thoroughbred named Seabiscuit rose up to outrun the elite ...
He was an unlikely superstar, lacking the looks of a Hollywood headliner, or the portfolio of a mogul. But his underdog image and feisty will to win attracted the heart of a nation, and the plain ...
RED LODGE — A Red Lodge couple could ride to a sweeter retirement, thanks to the saddle that jockey Red Pollard rode to a win on the now-famous horse, Seabiscuit. The two horse lovers, Robert E.