Ted Knowles, Jockey: You know, you've got an accent just like old Shawn. On you I like it.
Margaret O'Hara: My, you're a fast starter.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: That's my reputation. Then you did know all along who I was.
Margaret O'Hara: I found out.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Interested?
Margaret O'Hara: I should have known you were a jockey.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Oh, that's all right. I can't expect you to know everything before we've even got started.
Margaret O'Hara: Jockey's have sort of a special something about them that's easy to tell.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Uh, the bandy legs?
Margaret O'Hara: 'Tis more a secret thing of the spirit, I'm thinking.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Say, what's your name?
Margaret O'Hara: Margaret O'Hara.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Margaret. I'll tell you what, Margaret. I'll win my first race this year for you, if you promise to be there with maybe a two-spot on his nose.
Margaret O'Hara: No. Never.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Why not?
Margaret O'Hara: It would be bringing back a black memory to torment me.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Well, now who's talking crazy? Look, Margaret, I've got to work a couple more horses. Where can I see you again soon?
Margaret O'Hara: No place at all.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: No place at all? Am I that hard on the eyes?
Margaret O'Hara: You're not hard on the eyes at all, Ted, but you're a jockey. Goodbye.

Ted Knowles, Jockey: Say, I think your niece is swell.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Well, you can't start an argument with me that way, me boy.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: I just wanted to know if it'd be okay by you if I dated her.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: And if it shouldn't be okay by me, I'm thinking you'd start an argument.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Well, I thought maybe you had it in for jocks, too. Darned if I don't think I'd stand a better chance with her if I were a stable boy. She's a mystery, that Margaret is. You know, Mr. O'Hara, maybe you could put in a good word for me.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Well, now, being the kind of man you are, Ted, I've an idea you can solve that mystery without my help. However, I might be willing to put in a word here and there if you do me a bit of a favor in return.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Anything you say.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I'll not say much. Just buy that colt there, Seabiscuit.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Me, buy that little squirt? What for?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I like him.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: But he hasn't got a chance. George doesn't think so either, or he wouldn't be shipping him.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I think you're both mistaken.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Well, if you're so sure, why don't you buy him yourself?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: No, no. So long as I train for other people, I'll never race one of me own. I might be tempted to give him special consideration.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: I feel the same way myself.

Ted Knowles, Jockey: Margaret's in Los Angeles, isn't she?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Yes, she's a full-fledged nurse now.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: You know, I can't get her out of my mind.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: Maybe you don't want to. Are you in love with her, Ted?
Ted Knowles, Jockey: You're darn tooting.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: I'm tooting she's in love with you, too.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: So, that ought to make it a sure thing, but it doesn't.
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: You'll have to bear with her, Ted. She's running away from Danny's memory.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: But she's not running away from it, Shawn. It's right with her all the time. I wonder if she saw me ride a winner if maybe that would fix things. What do you think?
Shawn O'Hara, Seabiscuit's Trainer: That's an idea. I'll have her at the track for the San Carlos.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Oh, that'll be great.

Thomas Milford, Owner Milford Farms: I agree with you, Margaret, he should get to a warmer climate.
Margaret O'Hara: Where should I be taking him for a warmer climate?
Thomas Milford, Owner Milford Farms: You'll go with him?
Margaret O'Hara: Oh, indeed'n I will, sir.
Thomas Milford, Owner Milford Farms: Well, what about your nursing?
Margaret O'Hara: I'll be nurse to him and him alone until he's well.
Thomas Milford, Owner Milford Farms: Well, then. I think we'd better make it California. Charlie Howard bought a stock farm out there. He could use a man like Shawn.

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George Carson, Head Trainer at Milford Farms: Eight thousand dollars and you advised me.
Charles S. Howard, Seabiscuit's Owner: Haven't I heard enough about that in the last five years boss?