screen announcer says that Seabiscuit is the biggest thing on  four legs since Hope and Crosby. The scene is set well before the 1  November 1938 Pimlico race, but Bob Hope (qv) was not yet a major  star, and his first film with Bing Crosby (qv),  _Road to Singapore (1940)_ (qv), was not released until March 1940.