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 bankrupt Irish brick manufacturer, Johnny — as ...

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 ...

RED LODGE — A Red Lodge couple could ride to a sweeter retirement, thanks to the saddle that jockey Red Pollard rode to a win on the now-famous horse, Seabiscuit. The two horse lovers, Robert E.