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Dream Horse is a 2020 sports comedy-drama film directed by Euros Lyn from a screenplay by Neil McKay. The film stars Toni Collette, Damian Lewis, Owen Teale, Joanna Page, Karl Johnson, Steffan Rhodri, Anthony O'Donnell, Nicholas Farrell, and Siân Phillips, and follows the true story of Dream Alliance, a horse that raced in the Welsh Grand National.
The character of on-the-skids jockey Ronnie is portrayed by racing fixture Gary Stevens, a Hall of Fame jockey who won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in the course of his career. Stevens portrayed jockey George Woolf in the 2003 film, Seabiscuit. The series used 50 horses trained by Matt Chew at Santa Anita.
Ride Like a Girl is a 2019 Australian biographical sports drama film directed by Rachel Griffiths in her feature film directing debut [4] and starring Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill. It is based on the true story of Michelle Payne , the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015 .
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96%, based on 77 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Dark Horse offers a thoroughly crowd-pleasing look at an incredible — and inspirational — real-life story that will thrill equine enthusiasts and novices alike."
Bill Christine, a former long-time racing writer for the Los Angeles Times, pointed out that the film made some significant departures from Secretariat's actual history. These include: The film makes no mention of Riva Ridge, a Chenery-owned horse that had won the 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont, and helped keep Meadow Stable afloat. According ...
The film focuses on five international riders from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Ireland as they compete in the longest endurance horse race in the world, [1] the Mongol Derby. Showing the gruelling daily grind of the race itself, the film also tells the smaller stories of other participants, and features the ...
NASCAR Studios and Words + Pictures have partnered to form Full Speed Entertainment, a new production partnership that will develop and produce racing documentaries, series, special events studio ...
Jockeys is an American documentary sports reality television series that premiered on February 6, 2009 on Animal Planet.The series chronicles the professional lives of jockeys during the famous thirty-day Oak Tree Meet at Santa Anita Park.