He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten out. "Biscuit" fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing before his dormant talent was discovered by three men—cavalry veteran Charles Howard, western trainer Tom Smith, and half-crippled jockey Red Pollard—and he became the national sensation of 1938. One of the Best Books of the Year for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Economist, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is an enthralling story of an unlikely champion.