Hollywood already has made a movie for us
"Little Girls" who love horses and a happily-ever-after ending. That was
National Velvet, when Elizabeth Taylor was an adorable 12 years old.
The film was a horse-loving girl's dream......
I
am probably one of a very few on ridecamp (probably the only one actually)
who can remember being glued to the radio as Seabiscuit and War Admiral
duked it out. He was my hero and I plastered my bedroom wall with his
pictures from the sporting green of the San Francisco Chronicle. On
Monday night when they showed clips of him on television, I found my old
scrapbook with his pictures. An artist by the name of Howard Brodie drew
wonderful charcoal sketches of him and I wrote Mr. Brodie a letter and
told him I wanted a special picture of Seabiscuit for my bedroom wall.
He kindly wrote back and told me that girls my age should be studying
their schoolbooks and not gambling and horse racing. I have lost that
letter, but still have all of the sketches he drew which have
commentaries under them. One in particular shows Seabiscuit in the
foreground and a huge lion in the background and refers to the Bisc uit
as "the horse with the heart of a lion, the mighty fighter and gallant
hero of western turf" When he was shipped east for the match race
against War Admiral I was sure something awful would happen to him. The
announcer on the radio was so excited that it times it was hard to
understand what he was saying, but it finally became clear that our
local boy triumphed. I walked on air for days. Julie
Suhr
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Susan
Young Casey, Princess of Pink; secretary, RRRSA Semper Obliquo (Always
aside)
Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma U.S.A.
"Ride
on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on
over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
