Seabiscuit doesn’t race for nearly all the weeks leading up to the Santa Anita race because of owner disagreements and Red’s injury. Two jockeys are tried and it is Sonny who rides in the Classic.
Seabiscuit’s birth and trials during his early years are chronicled up to the point in his life when an old cowboy, Tom Smith, recognizes a horse with “real stuff.”
Robert does not receive the attention she is used to receiving at dinner time, so she makes a mess of the food items to gain the attention of adults at the table.
Robert enjoys playing chase/tag, she knows how to get attention, and her body proved able to digest even a red cloth ribbon. Three months of vacation came to a happy ending for the Kienzle’s as they returned to a healthy Robert.
Many people visited Robert every week, some who were ornithologists, some artists, and some simply captivated by a bird who loved to make people feel welcome.
The Kienzle’s make a good hand off to get Robert into new surroundings, then they leave on their trip. Robert settles into a new routine with Margaret and the three month visit commences.
We learn of Robert’s routines, beginning with morning practices, and also of phone conversations, his keen sense of order, and of his head injury from falling while asleep.
Robert, a quail born in Cape Cod, appears out of the last egg found in an abandoned nest and he quickly becomes an attached and social bird in the Kienzle home.