Red Pollard (Person) AKA John M. Pollard
Red Pollard
1909 AD - 1981 AD
AKA John M. Pollard
Canadian horse racing jockey best known for riding Seabiscuit.
Pollard stood 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) and weighed 115 lb (52 kg), which is considered big for a jockey.
Early in his career, he lost the vision in his right eye due to a traumatic brain injury suffered when he was hit in the head by a rock thrown up by another horse during a training ride. Because he would not have been allowed to ride had the full extent of his injury been known, he kept his vision loss a secret for the rest of his riding career.
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