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...first time that Jockey John ("The Cougar") Pollard, 46, had retired from racing. He went through the motions in 1940, again in 1942, and 13 years later he was still booting them home. But the last time he called his old friend, former Racing Editor David Alexander, to announce that he was hanging up his silks, The Cougar seemed to mean it. Reasonably sure that the long (more than 30 years) career of one of the oldest active jockeys is over at last, Alexander recalls the bright highlights in the current issue of The Blood Horse...
...Even today," says Alexander, "Pollard makes me think of Huck Finn...
Louse It Up. Pollard grew up in Butte, Mont., spent his teens as a horse wrangler and ham-and-egg fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program...
...Pollard's leg failed to heal properly, and no one thought he would ever ride again. But Seabiscuit had one more race coming up before going to stud for good-the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap-and Pollard was determined to ride him. Gimpy leg and all, he got the mount. Seabiscuit, too, had a bad leg. To Pollard, that made everything all right. "Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he cracked...
...event gave Herman Melville the idea for the last chapter of Moby Dick, in which the White Whale sinks Captain Ahab's ship. Melville paraphrased Captain Pollard's question as: "The ship? Great God, where is the ship...