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John M. "Red" Pollard (October 27, 1909 – March 7, 1981) was a Canadian horse racing jockey. A founding member of the Jockeys' Guild in 1940, Pollard rode at racetracks in the United States and is best known for riding Seabiscuit.
- March 7, 1981 (aged 71), Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Red Pollard. Young Pollard. Corbis. John Pollard was born in 1909 and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, in the western reaches of the Canadian wilderness. The second of seven children born to a...
The highlight of Pollard’s racing career came in 1940, when he rode Seabiscuit to victory in the race that had twice eluded the horse, the Santa Anita Handicap. “I got a great ride,” Pollard...
- American Experience
Cuando tenía quince años, Pollard dejó su casa al cuidado de un tutor y se fue a perseguir su sueño. Al cabo de un año, el tutor le abandonó en un hipódromo improvisado en Butte, Montana, y el chico se quedó solo.
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 months...
Hace 4 días · That happened to Red Pollard, Seabiscuit’s famous rider, in the San Carlos Handicap in February 1938. Pollard was riding Fair Knightess around the far turn when the horse He Did slowed down in...
3 de abr. de 2021 · Red Pollard at the racetrack (Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame) Red and his wife Agnes called 249 Vine Street in Pawtucket’s Darlington neighborhood their home. Their children, Norah and John would grow up and receive their formal education in Pawtucket’s public schools.
