Seabiscuit vs. Ligaroti - 1938 Match Race

In a race before the "Match Of The Century" against War Admiral, Bing Crosby sends his highly regarded Argentinian-bred, Ligaroti, up against the mighty Seabiscuit.

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• Thoroughbred
• Horse
• Racing
• Seabiscuit
• Ligaroti
• 1938
• Match
• Race
• Del
• Mar
• Racetrack
• Charles
• Howard
• Tom
• Smith
• Bing
• Crosby
• California

[partymanners]

Very nice video.. great footage of John Forsythe and Gregory Peck at the races..

[cf1970]

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[gfn02]

Fantastic! The description of this race in the book is reaaly interesting.

[cf1970]

Agreed; this video was fun and really showed off Seabiscuit's famous tenacity.

Take care.

[jelafleur]

Laura Hillenbrand's book is fantastic.You will love it.

[gfn02]

You never heard of him no doubt because there's no reference to him in the film. Ligaroti was indeed a very good horse, having posted impressive wins in Del Mar, Inglewood, and American Handicaps.

[TheIlovecheryl]

great stuff

[xXGrandclosingXx]

Spec Richardson was a bad sport doing everything he could to win, fair and unfair. I don't think Woolf did anything wrong and deserved the victory no matter what. Seabiscuit ftw! :D

[TheAnastasiaLee]

@Marian12c Seabiscuit would have won anyway, Spec knew that and tried to make Ligaroti win, but cheated.

[Marian12c]

@larrywheels

Woolf did grab Ligaroti's halter and he admitted it right after the race. But he did it because the other jockey had been grabbing Seabiscuits blanket and he even hooked his leg over Woolf's to keep Seabiscuit from taken a complete lead.

Racing officials declared Seabiscuit the winner because they said that if the other jockey had not fouled Woolf, he would have won anyway.

[larrywheels]

it seems that seabiscut's jockey grabbed the reins of ligaroti at the wire- the head of ligaroti stayed up -never really bobbed -was their a head on shot?- i guess they brawled down the stretch- it's been confirmed that hanky panky went on.

[Laci08]

Whats also pretty cool about this race is that Ligaroti was jointly owned by Bing Crosby and Charles Howards's son, Lin. Ligaroti was also being trained at the time by Tom Smith's son Jimmy Smith. Talk about keeping it in the family!

[BarbaroLover2003]

i remember hearing about Jockys doing that where they would fight while riding. im glad they dont do that anymore. it seems soo stupid. well to me it dose. and without the fight this race was really good. a good show of champions.

[aximili12310]

he was fouled becasue he garbbed his saddlecloth and pulled,then grabbed wolfs crop arm.then he linked his leg around wolfs so that if he went forward he would get pulled off.then wolf yanked up up his birdle at the last second and won by a nose

[911qwq]

real version

[TED5165]

Actually Ligaroti was owned by Bing Crosby and Lin Howard. Lin's father, Charles, owned Seabiscuit. Ligaroti was trained by Jimmy Smith, whose father, Tom, was Seabiscuit's trainer.