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Title: Statue of Seabiscuit
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Seabiscuit, with owner Howard, poses next to a life-sized bronze statue of him, erected in his honor in the paddock gardens at Santa Anita Park. The West Coast-based 'Biscuit' raced often at the Arcadia track; his final race was a victory in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap (known as the "Big Cap"). He died in 1947.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044674
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6357.; HE-002-409 4x5
CARL0000048016
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14130
Subject: Howard, Charles S
Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Seabiscuit (Race horse)
Statues--California--Arcadia
Racetracks (Horse racing)--California--Arcadia
Race horses--California--Arcadia
Arcadia (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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