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| 3 | * The scene where Smith decides Red Pollard and Seabiscuit are perfect for each other. Two downtrodden, beaten competitors, so angry at life...brought together. |
| 4 | * "You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause it got banged up a bit." |
| 5 | * Similarly, how he set Red and Seabiscuit on the road to recovery together. His statement [[FridgeBrilliance applies to both of them]]: |
| 6 | --> "They've got him so messed up running in circles he's forgotten what he was made to do... He's just gotta learn how to be a ''horse'' again." |
| 7 | * Any scene with Pumpkin, the massive sweet-natured Clydesdale who goes everywhere with Seabiscuit, to keep him company. |
| 8 | * It's small, it's subtle... but the one line, "I'd rather have you strong than thin." Half the reason Red lost almost all of his races, why he was so desperate and miserable and strung-out was because he'd been forced into an eating disorder to keep himself under 115 pounds, because all of his previous employers had held out his weight as a condition of letting him ride. And with that one line, Charles Howard gave Red permission to be a ''human being'' again. |
| 9 | * When you realize Mr. Howard has grown to think of Red as a son, and is terrified of losing him like he lost his little boy. |
| 10 | --> "It's not just the leg--it's not! He could fall, he could get trampled! If he gets thrown from that horse...!" |
| 11 | --> "...He could die?" |
| 12 | * Howard asks Smith why he's taking the time to fix the leg of a horse who will clearly never race again. Smith, sounding confused that he even has to explain this, replies "Because I can." |
| 13 | * The montage of Red and Seabiscuit jointly recovering from their (almost) [[CareerEndingInjury career-ending injuries.]] |
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