Seabiscuit (2003): Seabiscuit Meets Smith

The clip Seabiscuit meets Smith from Seabiscuit (2003) with David McCullough

The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at 5:00 in the morning.
Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him...
as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at?
Who do you think you are?"
He was a small horse, barely 15 hands.
He was hurting too. There was a limp in his walk,
a wheezing when he breathed.
Smith didn't pay attention to that.
He was looking the horse in the eye.
God... damn.
He was the son of Hard Tack, sired by the mighty Man O' War.
But the breeding did little to impress anyone at Claiborne Farms.
Get rid of him.
At six months, he was shipped off to train with the legendary trainer Sunny Fitzsimmons,
who, over time, developed a similar opinion of the colt.
Is that a racehorse or a lead pony?
The judgment wasn't helped by his gentle nature.
Where his sire had been a fierce, almost violent competitor,
Seabiscuit took to sleeping for huge chunks of the day...
and enjoyed lolling for hours under the boughs of the juniper trees.
His other great talent was eating.
Though half the size of other colts, Seabiscuit could frequently eat twice as much.
Fitzsimmons decided the horse was lazy...
and felt sure he could train the obstinance out of him.
I want you to hit him as many times as you can over a quarter of a mile.
When he didn't improve, they decided the colt was incorrigible.

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