The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: You'll be right in your element here, Maggie. We're all nurses now.
Margaret O'Hara: Nurses?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: The patient is one little horse, Seabiscuit. We're getting ready to try for the Santa Anita again.
Margaret O'Hara: But the paper said he was finished.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Yes, and I'd have sworn it, too, but now I know that so long as he can draw breath, you can't finish him. Tomorrow Ted is working him against the two best horses on the ranch.
Margaret O'Hara: Ted? Is he here?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: As if you didn't know.
Margaret O'Hara: I've forgotten all about him. How is he?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Coming along as fine as Seabiscuit. In the Santa Anita, you'll see Ted up on him.
Margaret O'Hara: I won't see him.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: You still love the lad, Margaret.
Margaret O'Hara: I tell you, he's out of my mind completely.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: But not out of your heart.
Margaret O'Hara: Sure and I can't help myself. Ah, the devil take Ted Knowles.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Margaret, your happiness is more important than the big race. Would it lift the cloud off your eyes if I tried to talk Ted out of riding?
Margaret O'Hara: I'd be the happiest girl in the world. Uncle Shawn, you're a darling.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Oh, hold on now. It's not an accomplishment at yet.
Margaret O'Hara: You won't have any trouble getting someone just as good as Ted to ride the Seabiscuit.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Well, I've asked George Woolf to stand by in case Ted doesn't come around soon enough. Jockey for jockey there's little to choose between them.
Margaret O'Hara: Well then, things are going to work out right for everyone, aren't they?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: 'Tis to be hoped for, Maggie darling.

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Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: You've a perfect right to know why I came to America. I'm through training jumping horses for the rest of me days. No doubt you remember the last grand national at Aintree?
George Carson, Head Trainer at Milford Farms: Oh, sure. I remember.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I saddled the favorite, Blackwatch. And the jockey was Danny, Margaret's brother. He was a great jockey and a great lad. Blackwatch was the best horse, and Danny the best jockey that day. We were the favorite. We had it won handily. He was running easily. It was just as though Danny were taking that grand, strong horse for a gallop. Sure there were jumps, and Blackwatch flew over them. Then came the last jump. Who knows what happened? Not I. Not anyone. They failed to clear it, and Blackwatch was down with Danny under him. Both boy and horse were done for when I got there. For 30 years I've been training jumpers in the so-called sport of kings. But that day at Aintree it came to me that when you kill a lovely lad and break the back of a fine horse the devil's in it, and not kings. A large part of me heart is in Danny's grave. And as for Margaret, I only hope the time will come when the blackness of that day will be lifted from her soul.

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Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: A good soldier, home from the wars.
Mrs. Charles S. Howard: So many, many battles, poor darling.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: No Santa Anita for us, fellow.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: Don't say that yet, Ted.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: What else would I say?
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: I don't know. What about it, Shawn?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: The stud is the place for him, sir.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: He can't be brought back?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I don't think so.
Mrs. Charles S. Howard: But Charlie, he's earned a rest.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: You brought back Golden Girl, remember?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: A young thing that ran half a dozen races with a feather on her back. He's run near 100, 30 of them in record time with high weight on him.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: Then there's no chance?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: A faint one, if any.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: Faint or not, we'll take it. Not even you can talk me off the Biscuit, Shawn.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: As you say, sir.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: Well, what's the program?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Well, give up everything else and devote ourselves to nursing him alone.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: All right, that's it. Ted, you stay and help us. We'll bring you back, too.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Thank you, sir. I'll stay.

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Though shot in Technicolor, the film incorporates actual black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in races.
In the close-ups, Seabiscuit was played by Sea Sovereign, his son.
The horse which plays Seabiscuit was a cousin to the real Seabiscuit.
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