Which Legendary Racehorse Are You?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/which-legendary-racehorse-are-youWOO!HOO!!!!!
You got: Seabiscuit
You were a HUGE deal during the Great Depression, becoming a symbol of hope for citizens across the nation. You’ve had tons of books and movies and stuff made about you. Aren’t you fancy!
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War Admiral, four years old, had won the Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937. Seabiscuit, who was five, would win Horse of the Year in 1938. Although the Biscuit was a year older than the Admiral, he was actually War Admiral's nephew.
What isn't evident from this film is that the Biscuit's jockey was instructed to pull up a little and make a race of it. Seabiscuit tended to get bored if he was too far out front, and liked to hang back and look the other fellow in the eye before showing him his heels. A bit of a nasty bastard, actually.
Just before Biscuit makes his break at the end, his jockey George Woolf calls out to the other jockey, Charles Kurtsinger, "See ya, Charlie!" But that's not audible on this film. Despite War Admiral posting his fastest ever speed for the 1 3/16 miles, Biscuit beats him by four lengths.
Laura Hillenbrand wrote an excellent book about the horse and his times, Seabiscuit, an American Legend. I think it's a great piece of social and sporting history.
-- Mal
Even though they played fast and loose with some facts. In the need for a "villain" they made War Admiral gigantic. In reality he was smallish (15.3 tops iirc.)
To its credit, the portrayal of the horrific fall Woolf had was so realistic I had a panic attack in the middle of the movie. About a decade earlier, my arab gelding fell over backwards. I was able to jump free in the nick of time (if you jump too soon, you'll pull the horse on top of you. if you jump too late, you won't be able to get out from under. either way, you may be crushed to death.) It was the most athletic thing I think I've ever done in my life. I sprained my knee badly swinging my leg under his back. The backward momentum as they start to fall is enormous. Anyway I landed face down, Algiers landed on his back next to me. We looked each other in the eye. And then he rolled on top of me and used my back to hoist himself to his feet with his elbow between my shoulder blades. I was a quadriplegic -- really just a head in the dirt -- for about 10-15 minutes after that, before I slowly regained feeling and movement.
Back to the movie, watching that scene I flashed back totally and nearly had to leave the theater, also nearly passed out. That scene was very, very well done. 
AKA Exterminator. It was a Weekly Reader book club selection (along with Danny Dunn and the Antigravity Machine) around 1953. One of my favorite books from that long ago time, it's about an ungainly thoroughbred who won major races for something like 15 years.
From a horseracing blog Colin' s Ghost: Thoroughbred Racing History
“…There was only one Exterminator. Talk with John Partridge, the veteran trainer, one of the best judges of horse flesh I ever saw. John has been looking at them run for over 60 years: ‘I’d like to think what Extermninator would do with this modern bunch,’ he told me. ‘Six furlongs one day – three days later a mile and a quarter – then two miles, then six furlongs again. He didn’t care.’”
You were a big freakin’ deal in your heyday, becoming the eighth American Triple Crown winner and the first horse in history to win a million dollars! You’re amazing!
but I was pretty clueless about the questions 
