There's going to be a Disney movie based on Secretariat?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Danzig

with pg's skills, i'd think he'd play a top handicapper...

Yeah, you should have seen this PM he sent me prior to the Phipps where he tried to tear into me for knocking Music Note, before the race.

I thought it might be BTW or DrugS just trying to be goofy at first, but then she lost by 10 and things started coming together.

I wonder if there's ever been a bigger horse racing message board tard than him.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Yeah, you should have seen this PM he sent me prior to the Phipps where he tried to tear into me for knocking Music Note, before the race.

I thought it might be BTW or DrugS just trying to be goofy at first, but then she lost by 10 and things started coming together.

I wonder if there's ever been a bigger horse racing message board tard than him.

and of course he sent another PM after saying he was wrong, right??

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and of course he sent another PM after saying he was wrong, right??

I just reread his PM. He actually gave out the winner!

Originally Posted by TenMostWanted1

I am totally against her and wish she was not POE with the Street Cry filly, but what exactly do you mean at this point ? Your comment makes no sense at all. Its almost like your implying she is finished or something, and as for beating Seattle Smooth, that filly is a rat, she has never even touched a 100 Beyer. Look at the pp's before these types of comments.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

I just reread his PM. He actually gave out the winner!

lol
a new angle to use.

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

They may focus somewhat on Penny C's dad, Christopher Chenery, who had bred many outstanding horses, including champions, but hadn't bred/owned a Kentucky Derby winner. How they did a 2-year foal-share with Claiborne in order to breed to Bold Ruler; Claiborne won the coin toss and got the first foal, an unplaced filly named The Bride, and the Cheneries got the second foal, Secretariat. Then Dad dies; family worried they will have to sell the farm to pay the estate taxes, or sell their most valuable asset, Secretariat. Claiborne steps in and sets up the syndicate so that Big Red can still run in the old man's colors. Then, tear-jerking time, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown, was the great horse that the old man had always tried to breed and he didn't live to see triumph. Penny chokes up, accepting the Eclipse awards in her father's memory. Cue sloppy Tchaikovsky-type music.

Good job!

--Dunbar

[MaTH716]

If anyone cares, here's the cast.
Principal photography is underway for Walt Disney Pictures' "Secretariat," the story of the legendary Triple Crown-winning horse and his owner Penny Chenery. The film will be shot on location in Kentucky and Louisiana.

The film is directed by Randall Wallace ("The Man In the Iron Mask" "We Were Soldiers,") and stars DIANE LANE ("Nights in Rodanthe," "Untraceable," "Unfaithful") and JOHN MALKOVICH ("Burn After Reading," "Changeling"). Based on the remarkable true story, "Secretariat" chronicles the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (Malkovich) - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and what may be the greatest racehorse of all time.

The cast also includes DYLAN WALSH (TV's "Nip/Tuck," "The Lake House," "We Were Soldiers") as Chenery's skeptical husband, and DYLAN BAKER ("Spider-Man 2," "Spider-Man 3," "Revolutionary Road") as Chenery's brother, a Harvard professor who questions her abilities. MARGO MARTINDALE ("The Savages," "Million Dollar Baby") portrays Chenery's assistant, and NELSAN ELLIS ("True Blood") plays Eddie Sweat, Secretariat's groom. OTTO THORWARTH, a real-life jockey who, through mid-July 2009, had more than 1300 wins, portrays Ron Turcotte, Secretariat's famed jockey. FRED THOMPSON ("Law & Order," "Die Hard 2," "In the Line of Fire") plays Bull Hancock, a master horse breeder who was president of the Racing League and a friend of Chenery's father. SCOTT GLENN ("The Bourne Ultimatum," "Nights in Rodanthe," "W.") plays Chenery's father, and AJ MICHALKA ("Aly & AJ" group) portrays her daughter. KEVIN CONNOLLY ("Entourage") and ERIC LANGE ("Lost") are featured as the reporters who first recognize Secretariat's potential, and JAMES CROMWELL ("24," "W.") portrays a wealthy financier and pillar of horse racing.

Director Wallace is an Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-nominated screenwriter ("Braveheart"). The film is produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, who founded Mayhem Pictures ("The Rookie,""Miracle," "Invincible,"). Mike Rich ("Finding Forrester," "The Rookie," "Radio") wrote the screenplay. The creative team also includes Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Dean Semler ("Dances with Wolves," "We Were Soldiers," "Apocalypto," the upcoming "2012"), production designer Tom Sanders ("Saving Private Ryan," "We Were Soldiers," "Apocalypto," "Eagle Eye"), costume designer Michael Boyd ("Gettysburg," "We Were Soldiers"), and editor John Wright ("X-Men," "The Passion of the Christ," "Apocalypto," "The Incredible Hulk").

[Arletta]

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/...cretariat_Extl

[Bigsmc]

Battaglia sighting.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Arletta

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/...cretariat_Extl

I love the subtitle: "Based on the impossible true story." Yeah, rich heiresses owning racehorses is just what I think of when I think of impossible true stories. Which is not to say Penny Chenery is not a class act all the way; just that I find it funny when movies attempt to build lots of struggle-against-the-odds drama into the life stories of the superwealthy.

That said, I'm already trying to figure out babysitting options for opening weekend so I can go see it. Heh.

[XIIPointStables]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Has anybody read the book on Secretariat that focuses on Eddie Sweat?

The Horse that God Built...read it over the winter.

It was okay. Eddie Sweat certainly loved the horse. Lived a tough live there at the end.