For the past few weeks I have been reading a book called Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand. This book is about a racing horse in the 1930s that must overcome physical and mental challenges to win races. This book tells his tale as he goes from a cheap beat up horse raced in a trashy track to one of the fastest racing horses of all time. This book also tells the story of the horse's jockey, a man who went from poor and starving, to a racing legend. This book also tells the tale of the trainer, a man who seldom talked to people, but was rumored to have possessed the ability to speak to horses. Seabiscuit is a great book and I think anybody who reads it will be pulled into to the 1930s world of this horse.
The book starts of with a poor man riding from New York to San Francisco, a man who would eventually own the horse known as Seabiscuit. This man got a lucky break in his finances when he opened a car dealership that made millions. On the other side of this story is a boy in Canada who lives in luxury, the Jockey of Seabiscuit. Whose life is destroyed by a flood that destroys his father's business rendering him poor and helpless. Find out what happens next in Seabiscuit.
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