The Sexy Love Interest in Emma’s chance is a Really Bad Stall Mucker. Doesn’t even know how to hold his pitchfork, or toss his shavings, never mind not wasting the good shavings.
findeight: “Why is it that any movie about horses, with horses or even a single horse in the background, good movie, B movie or stinker has the same nicker/whinny in it every time they show a horse? You know, the one you never hear in your own barn.”
My mare thinks she’s a movie star. She talks about everything – a whinny when we get home from work or when we step out the back door, a nicker when I walk into the barn, if I call her she will sometimes actually rear before galloping to the fence. Total drama queen. She is the stereotypical movie horse. :lol:
I recently watched The Gift Horse on Netflix. Sooo bad! Apparently pulling on the reins too hard can sprain a horse’s ankle.
I watched Dark Horse last night (finally). It was sweet and feel good. The real people were the stars so it was very natural.
Of course, like all of you, I kept checking to see if the real horse was being used or a copy. As a foal they used a filly. The blaze and legs were distinctive.
Then I Watched Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) in Heavy Horses - he is always a charmer.
ps. When I was in college, the best movies shown in the campus theater were the really, really dumb B movies. Mostly because people would yell funny comments in response to stupid stuff in the movies, kind of like mystery science theater 3000
The Sexy Love Interest in Emma’s chance is a Really Bad Stall Mucker. Doesn’t even know how to hold his pitchfork, or toss his shavings, never mind not wasting the good shavings.
m&m - gee thanks, look at what you made me go and do … the dog was startled out of her deep sleep because of my loud snort!
I think I read that Viggo Mortensin bought that paint horse after the movie
^^I heard the same. and at least that guy can ride.
No horse movie can be worse than Wildfire, the Arabian Heart. Even worse than Lightning, the White Stallion, which held the title for years in my mind.
So in looking up some of these bad horse movies listed here on Netflix today, I came across a documentary on the Palio, simply called “Palio” under the Horse Movies category.
Has anyone else watched it? It is mostly in Italian (w/ subtitles) and a really compelling look at the human personalities involved. Some of the racing footage is pretty brutal. I imagine the serious/fatal injury rate is high for both horses and jockeys 
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My kids adore both Emma’s chance and Christmas Ranch – no way I would ever watch them.
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I was just going to say, I don’t think you guys are the target group for these movies.
When I was a kid there was a German magazine called “Wendy”. In every issue it had a sappy comic story about a girl and horses (at about the intellectual level of the movies here), plus a poster in the middle, some other horse stuff and usually a small gimmick like a braiding comb or a plastic horse bracelet. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED that magazine when I was a kid.
It always amazes me that with all the money in the movie and tv industry that they don’t get an expert to sort out all the stupidity that we see in horse movies! I am sure it is the same for car people or doctors and lawyers! Even when Debbie Stephens was the technical advisor for “Something to Talk About” some of the horse mistakes were laughable!
It always amazes me that with all the money in the movie and tv industry that they don’t get an expert to sort out all the stupidity that we see in horse movies! I am sure it is the same for car people
yes was watching one where it was apparent they had spent great big bucks in production… it was set in the early 1940s …everything was period …except the Stop signs being like they are now Red …back then they were Yellow
Horse movies, some of the horses were better actors than the humans
Best “horse” movie I ever saw was “Let it ride” with Richard Dreyfuss. Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly and Robbie Coltrane steal the movie though. anyone who ever worked at the racetrack will recognize all these people…
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I’m not sure if I would call it the best but for the most part it is fun. As you said especially for anyone that has worked at the track and or spent a lot of afternoons hanging out with fellow handicappers friends. “Friends” you would only see at the track.
It has its flaws,Hollywood liberties not only on the racing side of things and just misses being a really fun movie. The writers either had some afternoons at the track or studied up well. But used one too many cliches. I think they used just about every “rail bird” cliche there is.
IMO Dreyfuss was perfect for the part and played it well.
I like David Johansen (formerly of the New York Dolls) in it. His character a little over the top. But most are. A lot good character actors in it.
I watched it the other night. It is mostly filmed at Hialeah IMO the most beautiful racetrack in the country. One the most beautiful in the world that I have been to. Spent a lot of time at Hialeah in the 80s brings back many fond memories.
“I’m having a really good day, a really good day”.
In the extra bonus features section of the movie they talk about painting the horses with an airbrush and chestnut paint and show them airbrushing it on a horse with predominantly white face.
Bluegrass ranks near the top of hard to watch.
Dreamer is way too much of a stretch.
My job here is done, Ladymcts! 
A few years ago I decided to watch all the horse movies on Netflix. I didn’t make it very far before I gave up and deleted all of them from my queue. It turns out that there’s a limit to just how many bad horse movies I can tolerate. 
Riderintherain, for some reason I can’t quote your post, sorry!
I studied abroad in Siena twice, and was there for the entire week of the July 2015 Palio. Those horses are truly treated like kings. The race itself is dangerous- a jockey hurt he knee or lower leg pretty bad in the palio I saw- that is honestly the only difficulty in their life. I’m facebook friends with the owner of a recent palio winning horse and he has it so good. Lots of turnout in huge fields and they seem to get a lot of time off and live out until they’re brought back into work in the new year. Vets are involved in every single step of the race. There are multiple vettings several weeks out, to select which horses run in the trial races. Vets give the ok for the horses to run in the selection races. Once horses are assigned, each contrada has a vet that is responsible for the care of the horse until after the race.
I have several books about Siena and il Palio, but this is just what I can remember off the top of my head!
