Byline: MATT GRAVES
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- There aren't many people who remember when a legendary trainer named ``Sunny Jim'' Fitzsimmons entered an undersized 2-year-old colt with wobbly legs named Seabiscuit in a $1,000 allowance race at Saratoga in the summer of 1935.
That was a lot of money in the post-Depression era, probably $40,000 today.
Seabiscuit ran ninth in a field of 13 that August afternoon. Eleven days later, Seabiscuit was entered again at Saratoga in the same condition. The race chart read ``dropped back.'' Seabiscuit left this equine shrine as forgotten as last winter's snow.
By the time Seabiscuit returned to Saratoga the next summer, he was becoming a race horse. He won …

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