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The Longshot is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Paul Bartel and starring Tim Conway. Plot ... waving a red dress, and the horse wins the race. ...
With nowhere to turn, and their horse to look after, Annie gets a job as a ranch hand and stable person at a stud farm owned by Mary Lou O'Brien (Marsha Mason), a stern woman who is dealing with her own past. Inspired by Mary Lou's encouragement, Annie decides to enter into a dressage competition with her horse she trained herself, Tolo ...
The field for Saturday's $3 million Pegasus includes Crupi - a 4-year-old named for the late J.J. Crupi, a top NJ trainer back in the day.
In gambling and economics, the favourite-longshot bias is an observed phenomenon where on average, betters tend to overvalue "longshots" and relatively undervalue favourites. That is, in a horse race where one horse is given odds of 2-to-1, and another 100-to-1, the true odds might for example be 1.5-to-1 and 300-to-1 respectively.
Donerail (1910 – after 1918) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was the upset winner of the 1913 Kentucky Derby.His win stands as the biggest longshot victory in the history of the Kentucky Derby.
His prize horse Certified Check is bequeathed to niece Martha, a young woman Ralston had hoped to marry. Martha and friend Jeff Clayton begin to enter Certified Check in races, but he always loses. Then they get a tip that the horse hates running near the rail.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
Kimberly Poppiti defines hippodrama as "plays written or performed to include a live horse or horses enacting significant action or characters as a necessary part of the plot." [ 1 ] Arthur Saxon defines the form similarly, as “[...] literally a play in which trained horses are considered as actors, with business, often leading actions, of ...