Charles Stewart Howard (1877 – 1950) was an American businessman. He made his fortune as an automobile dealer and who became a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner. 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... A Subaru car dealership. ... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ...

Howard was stamped perhaps the most successful Buick salesman of all time. He lost a son to a car accident in 1926 at an early age and later bought the soon-to-be-famous horse Seabiscuit. According to Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Seabiscuit, Howard's early Buick dealership in San Francisco was given a boost by the hand of fate; on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of the few individuals who had operational vehicles in the city, and was thus able to help the rescue effort significantly. Buick is a brand of automobile built in the United States, Canada, and China by General Motors Corporation. ... Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933—May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred race horse in the United States. ... Laura Hillenbrand (born 1967) is the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. ... Arnold Genthes famous photograph of San Francisco following the earthquake, looking toward the fire on Sacramento Street A statue of Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American geologist, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, on the campus of Stanford University. ...

In 1921, long before he bought Seabiscuit, Charles Howard purchased the 16,000 acre Ridgewood Ranch at Willits in Mendocino County. Tragically, his 14-year-old son, Frankie, died there in 1926 after a truck accident on the property. (The elder Howard established the Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital as a tribute to his son.) Used as a secondary residence, by the 1930s Howard had converted part of the ranch into a Thoroughbred horse breeding and training. Although Seabiscuit was the most famous resident at Ridgewood Ranch, Charles Howard owned many horses in his secondary career as a Thoroughbred owner including Kayak II and Hall of Fame colt Noor, the only horse to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions. Willits is a city in Mendocino County, California, United States. ... Mendocino County is a county located on Californias north coast, north of the San Francisco Bay Area and Sonoma County and west of the Central Valley. ... The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... Horse breeding is the process of using selective breeding to produce additional individuals of a given phenotype, that is, continuing a breed. ... In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. ... Kayak II (1935- ?) (originally named Kajak) was a thoroughbred race horse in the 1930s. ... The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ... Noor (1945-unknown) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse Champion who competed successfully in England and in America. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ...

Charles Howard died of a heart attack in 1950 and was buried in the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Ridgewood Ranch was sold by his heirs, with some of the horses sent to his son Lindsay's Binglin Stable in Moorpark, California. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ... Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, established by Hamden Holmes Noble in 1892, is a cemetery located in Colma, California, a place known as the City of the Silent. It is the final resting site for several members of the celebrated Hearst family plus other prominent citizens from the San Francisco area... Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula next to Daly City and South San Francisco. ... Binglin Stable in Moorpark, Ventura County, California was a stock farm established during the latter part of the 1930s to race and breed Thoroughbred horses. ... Moorpark is a city of 32,978 people, in Southern California. ...

See also

• Seabiscuit (film) – starring Jeff Bridges as Charles S Howard.

Seabiscuit is a 2003 American drama film based on the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. ... Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...

External links

• People connected to Seabiscuit
• An excerpt from Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand