He was as unlikely a champion as seen come any sport. Physically he was nothing to look at. He had a great big knobby of knees, his neck was too big, he had a big hammer head. He had this flailing motion when he ran as if he were swatting flies. They tried to give him away and was rejected by how bad he was. The day that Charles Howard discovered seabiscuit tell us how charles was first introduced to this horse. He and his wife were sitting up in the grandstand. Saratoga was the lowest level of horseracing going on. He looked down at a very ugly horse and so did his wife and they were watching him and he that hurt eliminated the horse would win and she felt this was silly and said no and took the best but said he wouldnt win and he did. They shared their lemonade and they both had a tradition and he was a man whose intuition was superb to be if he could recognize potential and he liked this horse. There was something about him. He told the trainer to look at him and he bought him. The
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