Was there an earlier film about the horse Sea Biscuit? If so could you
identify it so that I can try to view a copy?

Hi! Thanks for the question. 

In the Turner Classic Movies website, it mentions that a 1949 film
made by Hollywood starring Shirley Temple was also about Seabiscuit
and was entitled ?Story of Seabiscuit?.

?In 1949, Hollywood took the real-life Seabiscuit story and
transformed it into a vehicle for Shirley Temple and Barry Fitzgerald
titled The Story of Seabiscuit. Temple, in one of her last films,
played the loyal niece to Fitgerald's horse trainer. The pair flee to
America to escape the memory of a family member's death and find
solace on a Kentucky farm and in the horse Seabiscuit. Although the
horse was named Seabiscuit in the movie, most of the other facts and
names were changed for this highly fictionalized account.?

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http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/MovieNews/Index/0,,29252,00.html 


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