having ridden three winners in the Kentucky Derby, two in the Preakness, and three in the Belmont Stakes. Before "Seabiscuit," he had never acted, but, according to the filmmakers, he was a natural.

Fitzsimmons even served as Seabiscuit's first trainer (though ... who upended that year's Derby winner, Orb. Reach Kentucky men’s basketball and football reporter Ryan Black at rblack@gannett ...

He kept his colt out of the Kentucky Derby in part because of his low opinion ... That only happened in 1937, when Howard barnstormed Seabiscuit on an 8,000 mile cross-country racing campaign ...

He kept his colt out of the Kentucky Derby in part because of his low opinion ... That only happened in 1937, when Howard barnstormed Seabiscuit on an 8,000 mile cross-country racing campaign ...