Wait, they made a Shirley Temple Seabiscuit movie???
How did I not know that?
When I was really little I used to love Shirley Temple movies. (3 channels back then and usually only 2 worked at a time, LOL)
Now I have to go look that up.
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Ugh, I remember the first time reading that book and it was just a one or two line mention of how Hell Bitch killed Newt and thinking, “WTF? That’s rotten!!!” :no: :eek: :no: I liked Newt.
LOL, I’m still surprised the movie didn’t recreate Seabiscuit as a Gypsy Vanner or something. :winkgrin:
However I did notice on the movie trailer for Secretariat that the horse did a massive color change from birth to adult. Apparently according to movie makers Secretariat was born a bay! His bay-ness must have shed out with his foal coat, leaving him the chestnut we all knew him by. :lol:
Seriously, do they think people watching movies are idiots?
many times I really dislike the movies as compared to the books. Mainly because movies tend to so overdo everything and Hollywood it until it’s nothing remotely like the descriptions in the books. And also because my imagination doesn’t always match up to the way the movie casts it. Some movies made from books I watch and think, “But that’s not what s/he is supposed to look like!” I know it’s just the way I personally pictured something though. It’s worse with horses, especially when the breed changes from scene to scene, LOL! (or markings)[/QUOTE]
I really disliked The Black Stallion movie because it was SO far removed from the book for no really good reason. Why was Alec so damn young?
And that UTTERLY RIDICULOUS helmet he wore for the match race. It was AWFUL.
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Well, there’s the Pie! He was supposed to be ugly as heck. 
The Shirley Temple movie is “The Story of Seabiscuit,” I think… whoever knew that Seabiscuit’s rise to fame could be credited to a curly-haired moppet? :lol:
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Well, there’s the Pie! He was supposed to be ugly as heck. ;)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but certainly not short bay and dumpy… 5 this must be our next one! 
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Atta boy to the stock manager for the movie. Someone seems to have done their research.[/QUOTE]
There is a Making of Lonesome Dove video. I have it on VHS, but I imagine it might be available on DVD by now. It had a good section on the livestock used. Very enjoyable.
I didn’t Know that!
According to Wikipedia McMurtry used Charles Goodnight/Oliver Loving as a basis for Call and Gus in LD.
No wonder the characters seemed so real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Loving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goodnight
The only part of the black Stallion movie I liked was the island parts…the scenery was gorgeous.
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When did the Jockey Club start the lip tattoo requirement? The Black Stallion books were written beginning in 1941, and a lot of things were different with breed requirements and such.
I suspect that in the '40’s, tattooing wasn’t an issue, which is why it was probably much easier to slip in ringers.
I always loved the Black Stallion series, but later on I discovered stories by John Taintor Foote, a link posted below for “Blister Jones.” It’s free. Foote tells about Colonel Sanford and his great horses, now old and poor, wishing to see just one more horse racing with the Sanford silks.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19041
A link to part of “The Look of Eagles,” starts page 17
Summarizes the story and has excerpts of some of the greatest lines of the book, all 72 pages of it. I looked it up using the line I remember best, “Death had the heels of him that night.”
Oh yeah, pick apart? Nuttin’ wrong here.
First of all The Hellbitch was not Gaited just because she had a good ground covering gait. Jake Spoon was the only one that rode a Gaited horse. It was part of the portrayal of Jake being soft. It has often been the view with good hands in the West that only a soft souled gunzyl that never learned to sit a trot would ride a Gaited horse. Don’t disrespect the Hellbitch in such a way.
Second of all even some of you magical one ride horse whisperers will find horses that you will not fix quickly. I’ve been working with colts and problem horses professionally for 25 years and still yet today I find true Broncs that take time to get over their problems. A true Bronc ain’t common anymore. Most “untrainable” Broncs don’t take much time but on a rare occasion one still comes along.
This thread is 10 years old, buddy.
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