# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-thomas-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:42.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-thomas-smith"
name: "R. Thomas Smith"
slug: "r-thomas-smith"
description: "Robert Thomas Smith was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born in a log cabin in the backwoods of northwest Georgia, as a young man he trained horses for the United States Cavalry and worked on a cattle ranch. In 1934, he was hired as a trainer by the wealthy businessman Charles S. Howard."
tagline: "American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer of Seabiscuit (1878–1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seabiscuit_Tom_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1878-05-20"
deathDate: "1957-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.525598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Smith_(horse_trainer)"
    title: "Tom Smith (horse trainer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84)"
    title: "توم سميث (مدرب خيول)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "توم سميث (مدرب خيول من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Thomas_Smith"
    title: "R. Thomas Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Smith_(allevatore)"
    title: "Tom Smith (allevatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ロバート・トーマス・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1447236"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump