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Heaviest bidding at the I. M. Chart Gallery auction was on items connected to Seabiscuit, jockey George Woolf, and horse owner Charles Howard.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25865
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Auctions
Seabiscuit
Woolfe, George
Howard, Charles
Item ID
26065AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mailbag topic-George "The Iceman" Woolf was a Canadian jockey famous for riding the great Seabiscuit to victories in 1938. The 35-year-old was unseated from his horse Please Me during a race on January 3, 1946, suffered a concussion and died the next day. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Gene Autry sane at his funeral.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36439
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Woolf, George
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park
Collection
Newspaper Index
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