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Originally Posted by mountainman
Intend to blog on racing flicks. personal fave is boots Malone...will include casey's shadow..secretariat.. seabiscuit..phar lap...any other's (aside from the inane "let it ride") deserving??
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If you still have your old Horseplayer Magazines, I did an article on horseracing in the movies in July/August 2011 issue.
I put horseracing movies into three categories: those are never intended to be taken seriously (see the movie Stripes about a zebra who thinks he is a race horse, movies that purport to tell a true story (Secretariat, Seabiscuit), and puffed up, could be true stories about the track (Dreamer, Let it Ride, the Black Stallion).
I seriously panned Secretariat and the movie with Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning, Dreamer. In the end I also had to pan Let it Ride, although I will say that people who knew nothing about horseracing generally liked the movie. I liked Seabiscuit based on Lauren Hillenbrand's book, although I wasn't as taken with the Seabiscuit movie with Shirley Temple from the 40's.
On the other hand, the "tootsie-frootsie ice cream" scene from the Marx Brothers, A Day at the Races may have been the single best scene for anyone who has ever been touted.
