This goes out to all aspiring horse and pony owners out there who have a pony on their Xmas list each year. Within the history of race horsing, there was a stallion (male horse) by the name of Seabiscuit who was born on 23 May 1933 and lived for almost 14 years. Seabiscuit got his name from hardtack which is also known as sea biscuit, a type of cracker that sailors eat. Seabiscuit grew up on Claiborne Farm in the Kentucky based rule city of Paris (named after the French capital) and was trained by James E. "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons and Tom Smith. During his lifetime, the light bay coloured Seabiscuit's earnings were $437,730. He raced 35 times as a two-year-old and had changed trainers three times during his two- year-old season. He was known as "Pappy" by those close to him and "The Biscuit" by the public. When he was about to race, Seabiscuit would often look sleepy as he approached the start of the race as he was a very laid back horse but he was not too laid back to father (or sire) 108 foals in his life. One of Seabiscuit's greatest achievements was being voted American Horse of the Year for 1938 after beating the Triple-Crown 1937 winner War Admiral by 4 lengths in a 2-horse special at Pimlico. After spending his life as the top money winning racehorse up to the 1940s (he retired in 1940), Seabiscuit died on 17 May 1947 at the age of 13 and just six days short of turning 14.