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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular

attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in

the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or

Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing

establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse

with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the

automobile to the western United States and became an overnight

millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he

hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado

plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement

price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was

blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners

survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe

injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically

indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal

underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

From the Hardcover edition.

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He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature,

knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a

cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his

quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura

Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon

in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.

Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely

triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once

declared that "the day of the horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a

man who "had cultivated an almost mystical communication with

horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he

charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube.

Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from

early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from

serious injury to "Horse of the Year"--as well as the Biscuit's

fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes the world of

horseracing in the 1930s, from the snobbery of Eastern journalists

regarding Western horses and public fascination with the great

thoroughbreds to the jockeys' torturous weight-loss regimens,

including saunas in rubber suits, strong purgatives, even

tapeworms.

Along the way, Hillenbrand paints wonderful images: tears in Tom

Smith's eyes as his hero, legendary trainer James Fitzsimmons,

asked to hold Seabiscuit's bridle while the horse was saddled;

critically injured Red Pollard, whose chest was crushed in a racing

accident a few weeks before, listening to the San Antonio Handicap

from his hospital bed, cheering "Get going, Biscuit! Get 'em, you

old devil!"; Seabiscuit happily posing for photographers for

several minutes on end; other horses refusing to work out with

Seabiscuit because he teased and taunted them with his blistering

speed.

Though sometimes her prose takes on a distinctly purple hue

("His history had the ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown

snow"; "The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining

season"), Hillenbrand has crafted a delightful book. Wire to wire,

Seabiscuit is a winner. Highly recommended. --Sunny

Delaney

书籍介绍

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

From the Hardcover edition.

• 作者：Angela 发布时间：2012-12-30 23:57:17

  还是电影中的故事更完美。

• 作者：momo 发布时间：2012-11-23 22:31:16

  正在读unbroken,这本书一定要留下。没读完，节奏有点慢。阅读跨越时间太长，读散了。

• 作者：飞天大猩猩 发布时间：2016-07-10 13:17:58

  抗争

• 作者：繁荣就好 发布时间：2017-01-02 13:21:44

  第七本英文原著，对赛马这项运动比较陌生，前20%读起来略生涩

• 作者：诗 发布时间：2017-08-07 22:37:41

  another great book from Laura Hillenbrard, but too much details about the racing itself make it hard to read for the impatient

• 作者：py 发布时间：2022-03-15 17:07:55

  认识一下成吉思汗的一生

• 倔强和勇气的涅槃，便会看到成功在望

  作者：忧郁小韩 发布时间：2015-01-14 15:52:07

          2014年12月8日，读完了《奔腾年代》，共24.4万字。

          这是一部让人热血沸腾的纪实作品。希伦布兰德用了足足四年的时间，收集了大量详实的资料，最终使得这段发生在八十年前的赛马故事绘声绘色地展现在世人面前。这是一部非常值得一读的作品。

         善于把握机会、通过卖汽车而暴富的查尔斯·霍华德不幸中年丧子，随后婚姻破裂。由于1929年金融危机爆发，政府重新开放马场，霍华德决定不再卖车，转而回归原始——动身去寻找他的真名天马。一次又一次地偶然，他认识了神秘而沉默、可以静静地陪着一匹马度过一整天的驯马师汤姆·史密斯，驯马师物色到了个头矮小还有些坡脚、被低价贱卖却善于奔跑的小马“海洋饼干”，他们又遇到了少年遭家人遗弃，长大郁郁不得志的骑师雷德·波拉德。于是，这如此平凡的三人和一匹马组成的团队，即使在起步阶段并没有得到别人的理解和赞扬，却凭借着过人的智慧和坚强的意志，在赛马的征程上不断创造出令人瞠目结舌的辉煌。从1936年海洋饼干在史密斯的照料下崭露头角，到1940年海洋饼干赢得圣阿尼塔赛马场的负重赛后光荣退役，整个美国，有海洋饼干出场的地方便是万人空巷。甚至在海洋饼干的巅峰对决时，美国总统罗斯福也停下手中的工作，听完了比赛的实况解说。

         骑师波拉德的形象始终在脑海中萦绕。赛场上不慎从马背跌落极有可能重伤或者死亡，赛场下为了减轻重量，不断催吐或是在粪堆中挖一个洞“蒸桑拿”。但骑师为了生计却不得不在每一场赛马中拼命向前。波拉德一只眼睛失明，为了得到工作而隐藏病情。就在他状态良好时，一场意外突然发生：帮好友试骑他的马匹时，马突然受惊将骑师摔倒在地。波拉德腿部严重骨折。医生说波拉德以后再也不能骑马了。就在此时，伍尔夫胯下的海洋饼干在1939年圣阿尼塔负重赛中受伤，兽医也认为海洋饼干再也不能比赛了。于是，他们成了一对被命运淘汰的坡子。

         “让一个男人心碎，不如让他断腿”。

         波拉德并没有失去希望。他每天带着海洋饼干在霍华德的庄园中散步、进行康复训练。一段时间过后，驯马师竟惊人地发现海洋饼干恢复良好。波拉德冒着终身残疾的危险，冲破重重阻力，坚持由自己骑着海洋饼干出战。这对不被看好的搭档在1940年3月2日最终赢得了美国最著名的圣阿尼塔“十万大赛”。

         “骑师只要露出一丁点的懦弱迹象，在场上就可能会变得很惨”。

         海洋饼干与海上战将的对决也非常精彩。东部的第一名“海上战将”和他的主人们自然看不起来自西部的这只其貌不扬的小马。生性好强的马主人霍华德自然想让两者一决高下，他们参加了很多“海上战将”参加的比赛，却因种种原因双方总会出现不得不退出比赛的场面。终于，机会在1938年11月1日到来。当时波拉德生病卧床，他的好朋友伍尔夫骑着海洋饼干，在使“整个美国狂热沸腾”的皮姆利可特别赛中打败了对手。

         能骑上海洋饼干是每个骑师的光荣。这也得益于驯马师对马如对自己儿女般的透彻了解。“每一匹马都是独一无二的，一旦你进入它的思想和心灵，便能在一个原本可能桀骜不驯的动物深桑引发神奇的反应。”为了训练海洋饼干反应能力，史密斯用毛巾包住一个闹钟扔进马厩里；为了避免被打扰，史密斯和记者们玩起了猫和老鼠的游戏……

        他们三个人各司其职，缺了任何一个都不会有“海洋饼干”的辉煌。看完小说后又看了电影，由于篇幅限制，电影把“海洋饼干”在场上失利的情节都删除掉了，有些人觉着胜利如此容易。然而我们必须意识到，正式如此多的坎坷和失败，才造就出“海洋饼干”团队最终的成功。

• 像海洋饼干那样奔腾

  作者：读书 发布时间：2013-09-22 20:30:24

  海洋饼干这匹马又矮又小、毛色像泥巴、前腿总是打不直，在最低层的赛马场上跌跌撞撞了近两年，被误解，而且被错待。但它有惊人的速度、灵活的技巧，又有不屈不挠的意志。然而就是这匹马，没有倒于前两年的困顿，而是在绝境中一样的坚持奔腾，终于，在其职业生涯的后四年中找到了自己的价值，以至于有“一寸海洋饼干一寸金”之说。这就是在经济大萧条的后半期，美国人的文化偶像，它已经远远超出了体育赛场，它代表的是一种精神，一种身处困境却永不妥协永远朝向阳光奋斗的精神！

   对，就是这样一个故事，感动了我。很多时候，我们都知道一个故事感动人，不仅仅因为那里面的东西，而是它真的走进了我们的心坎！亦或是说我们将之与故事中的主人公同命运了！这就是人不由自主中常做的假设！自然，海洋饼干的故事之所以一开始就能打动我，正是由于上面我所说的它的形象。海洋饼干的形象不被待见，正如我自己不待见自己的形象一样，身材走样，工作没有多大的成绩，职称遥遥无期。但实际上，比起海洋饼干，我的确没有什么值得可自怨自艾的，因为海洋饼干外形虽然不佳，但是它的精神是在骨子里，一种其它马所不具备的精神，而这种精神正是我所缺少的！即是发掘自身潜力的精神！

   以往看书时，眼泪都是奉献给言情小说或是悲情小说，很少将眼泪奉献给和体育有关题材的小说的。可是在看到《在血泪中驰骋》这章时，我就潸然泪下了，驯马师为了控制体重，所承受的折磨可以用炼狱式来形容，他们在遭受非人折磨的同时，也付出了沉重的代价，在肉体上和精神上收到了双重的折磨。而这所有的一切，都只为体重合格！我们常感慨于命运的不公，可是对自己却从来狠不下来，一个舍不得让自己吃苦的人，又怎么能在社会中获得生存的可能呢！

  驯马师的这种精神，也许海洋饼干读懂了，于是它顺利地让驯马师波拉德把自己的潜能挖掘了出来，成就了一代传奇！

  这个世界上谁也无法成为谁，但是谁都可以从别人那里汲取能量，成为真正的自己！我们无法像海洋饼干那样在赛马场上风驰电掣般的奔跑，但是我们可以在自己的人生道路上大步前行！只因为人生就是一场赛马，无论前方路途多么坎坷，只要我们自己想奔跑，就没有人能够拦得住！