Racing Movies
 

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??

Longshot with Tin Conway

50-1

pharlap

It wasn't a movie but an episode of mission impossible called run for the money was both entertaining and comical.

Three Men on a Horse

Seabiscuit and The Black Stallion, which isn't a pure racing movie, but I liked Mickey Rooney teaching the kid how to ride.

Racing Stripes

A trained Zebra beats thoroughbred racehorses. You also get a flurry of talking animals and stuff. :lol:

A Day At The Races.

I watched this recently. I was surprised, it was pretty good

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.

Boots Malone

Archer, starring a very young Nicole Kidman.