Just watched this on the TV.
Only caught from this part onwards.
All I know from what I’ve seen, is the horse is completely blind, and apparently hopeless when schooling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrUbUqa-FIc&feature=related
If anybody can find the rest of the movie… 
I didn’t get to see it, and I cant find anything online 
I have nightmares where I wake up screaming and in a cold sweat, and my SO says, ‘Don’t worry, no one can make you watch that movie again’.
I’m a sucker for horse movies, even if they’re completely cheesy or the riding is bad. I just like to watch horses on TV while I clean my tack - kind of a tradition 
You can get that one on Amazon.
I think you’ll have to buy it… or possibly rent it, I doubt youll be able to find the whole thing online to watch.
I bought it for $6 online, I think from amazon. Horrible movie, but my horse is in it :D, so I had to be a good mom and buy it, lol. It’s cute though, you just can’t take it too seriously and you’ll be able to be entertained.
It comes on the Hallmark Channel every 2 or 3 months… my TiVo keeps trying to record it for me. I watched it once-- never again. And usually I love any and all horse movies no matter how cheesy… but that one was just over-the-top awful, IMHO…
Oh I wish you had to work hard to avoid seeing it. I’m thinking of petitioning DISH to have a DVR search option called “All ‘equestrian’ EXCEPT The Long Shot” … It would be a mercy killing to take that thing away completely. twitch
(but then again, almost ALL horse movies make me twitch, that one just happens to be one of the notably BAD options that shows up on my DVR all. the. time.)
Amazon
I bought my DVD on Amazon! I also bought another horse movie by Hallmark (it wasn’t near as good, but you get free shipping over a certain amount).
It is an awesome movie! It will make you cry!
Makes you cry because you’ve just wasted two hours of your life watching such a crap film.
Isn’t there an old thread on this…
I never saw the film, but remember reading about it, I think, before it was released.
Isn’t it loosely based on a true story, that was then probably taken by Hollywood and ( sounds like )turned to crud?
Very few films that have to do with horses that are any good, esp. if you’re a stickler for details…
Good luck and best wishes from Kansas.
I rented it from blockbuster.com a couple months back.
I’ve been renting every horse related movie on the site, even though they don’t have a lot of good ones.
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ROFL
You’ll laugh
You’ll cry
You’ll kiss six bucks good by!
Actually, I find it’s sort of like a grisly traffic accident…one is drawn, inexorably to go back and see if it really was that bad.
If I recall correctly (and I hope I don’t because that would mean I wasted MORE than two hours and used up precious memory brain cells) went from a lady who had a lower level school horse that was not really blind, to a lady who got divorced by abusive husband, lived in a horse trailer with her daughter, desperately needed a job, found out her Grand Prix champion was going blind, competed in a dressage show, and that somehow bailed her out financially.
The most terrifying part is where the spectators on the sidelines are practically sobbing their eyes out and screaming, ‘OH OH OH! JUST LOOK AT THAT STRIDE!’ and saying things like ‘He’s running blind in traffic!’ and ‘She is his eyes!’ while someone rides around on a cute-as-a-button little horse who has very, very normal eyes. Can’t they even put colored contact lenses on the horse or something?
At one point, she has to do a canter transition and someone says, ‘UH OH…HERE IT COMES…WILL SHE DO IT!’
The suspense was killing me! WILL THE HORSE CANTER! OH PLEASE LET IT CANTER!
If one can imagine for a moment, the author’s REAL husband was just a little bit annoyed at how he was portrayed.
In other words, no, actually, this is not even very, very loosely, based on a true story.
In my mind, Sam Kinneson and Russell Brand and Pee Wee Herman are the spectators…Sam is screaming ‘OH! OH! KILL ME NOW! COME ONNNNN!!!’, Russell Brand is prancing around immitating the horse AND rider while yelling obscenities, and Pee Wee is jumping up and down and clapping his hands, yelling ‘Chair-eeeeee! Go Miss Yvonne, Go!’.
Here’s a Q&A with Amy Gaston (the person the story is based on)
http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/publish/pr/home/shows/long_shot__the/q___a/the_long_shot_amy.html
Haha, and then I had to click on some more info…read Julie Benz’ Q&A at the bottom. HILARIOUS.
http://www.whedon.info/Julie-Benz-darla-Tv-now-com.html
Northern horses, they can’t lay down…oh my.
Okay. So what’s a “northern” horse? Something to do with aurora borealis?
Please someone, tell me where can I get a northern horse. A horse that can’t lay down must be so much easier to keep clean! My horse must obviously be a southern horse. 
Also, having watched Buffy and Angel for years, I keep expecting her turn into ash in the sunlight.
“See,see Douglas how tight her pivot is?” Now thats when I really started to laugh.Its like watching a French and Saunders skit.:lol:
The Long Shot is bad, but it doesn’t come CLOSE to The Derby Stallion. Terrible doesn’t even begin to describe it. Kid goes from first getting on a horse to riding in a steeplechase within 1 month. Meanwhile, his archrival trains his chasers by racing around a show jumping course at home and timing it with a stopwatch.
And of course, archrival has no emotional connection to his horses, so therefore, he loses the race to the hero of the story, who, despite only riding for a few weeks, can overcome everything because he loves his horse sooo much.
Thats booo:cry:tiful
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