John Pollard was born in 1909 and raised in Edmonton ... But most people knew him as “Red,” a nickname he earned for his shock of flame-colored hair. In 1927, Pollard was sold — young ...

As Thanksgiving approached in 1938, Seabiscuit’s jockey Red Pollard watched the world from a room at Boston’s Winthrop Hospital, wondering if his leg, shattered in a racing accident four ...