Pollard was a "track-rat" hanging around race tracks trying to get hired to ride people's horses. The actual meeting of these two men happened because of Howard's trainer Tom Smith. In his time, Smith was an uncoventional trainer, Howard an unconventional owner, Pollard an unconventional jockey (much taller than most jockeys) and of course Seabiscuit was an unconventional race horse. Just an added-most people don't know that War Admiral and Seabiscuit were related.
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