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Red Pollard was the grandson of Michael Pollard, born in 1834 in Ireland. Michael emigrated to New Jersey in 1850, moved to Illinois by 1855, and in 1863 married Irish immigrant Bridget Moloney. They moved to Iowa in 1870, where Red's father, John A., was born in 1875. John A. immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, in 1898. After the turn of the ...
He is soon selling automobiles, becoming the largest car dealer in California and one of the Bay Area's richest men. In the wake of the Great Depression, Canadian John "Red" Pollard's family is financially ruined, and he is sent to live with a horse trainer. Years pass and Pollard becomes a jockey, but amateur boxing leaves him blind in one eye.
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s. He beat the 1937 Triple Crown winner, War Admiral, by four lengths in a two-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.
Quotes about strength and love “The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true ...
Roses are red, violets are blue, let’s skip the mushy stuff and have some tacos too! 41. You had me at ‘let’s skip the Valentine’s Day stuff and just chill.’ 😎 ️
George Monroe Woolf (May 31, 1910 – January 4, 1946), nicknamed "The Iceman", was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey.An annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild is named in his honor.
Losing a pet is every owner’s worst nightmare, and for Paul Guilbeault, that nightmare lasted eight long years. In 2017, during a move, his miniature pinscher, Damian, vanished. Despite the time ...
George Pollard Jr. was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son of Tamar Pollard (née Bunker) and George Pollard, a ship's captain, [2] at a time when the principal industry there was hunting sperm whales to harvest the oil contained in their blubber and spermaceti. [3]